THORNE WIDGER FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND BARN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1326542
Date first listed:: 19-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: THORNE WIDGER FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND BARN
Statutory Address:: THORNE WIDGER FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND BARN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1326542
Date first listed:: 19-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: THORNE WIDGER FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND BARN
Statutory Address 1:: THORNE WIDGER FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND BARN

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: THORNE WIDGER FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL AND BARN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: Torridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Buckland Brewer
National Grid Reference:: SS4202916422

Details

SS41NW 10/76

BUCKLAND BREWER Thorne Widger Farmhouse and attached wall and barn

GV. II

Farmhouse. Late C16/early C17 with mid C19 alterations and extension. Roughcast over coursed slatestone rubble; gabled slate roof; brick end stacks. 3-unit plan. 2 storeys; 4-window range. Central porch has late C19 six-panelled (2 glazed) door. Flat rendered arches over late C19 two to 3-light casements. Mid C19 extensions of similar materials attached to rear left. Interior: boxed beam and open fireplace with pot hooks in ground-floor room on right; central room, former hall, has blocked fireplace and cavetto and ovolo-moulded beams; C19 plank and panelled doors; room to left and first floor not inspected but likely to be of interest. Subsidiary features: outshut which acts as porch abuts wall of coursed slatestone rubble to right, which is attached to an early C19 barn of coursed slatestone rubble with a gabled slate roof; central threshing floor has plank double doors, with strap hinges flanked by projecting cheeks with Welsh slate roof; entry is flanked by C20 outshut with corrugated iron roof and a C19 outshut with pantile roof; polygonal wheel house to left, partly rebuilt in breeze block. Interior: A-frame trusses with pegged collars and notched apexes.

Listing NGR: SS4202916422

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 91393
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.