Town Tenement Farmhouse Including Farmyard Wall Adjoining to South and Front Railings
TOWN TENEMENT FARMHOUSE INCLUDING FARMYARD WALL ADJOINING TO SOUTH AND FRONT RAILINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326605
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Town Tenement Farmhouse Including Farmyard Wall Adjoining to South and Front Railings
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN TENEMENT FARMHOUSE INCLUDING FARMYARD WALL ADJOINING TO SOUTH AND FRONT RAILINGS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326605
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Town Tenement Farmhouse Including Farmyard Wall Adjoining to South and Front Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWN TENEMENT FARMHOUSE INCLUDING FARMYARD WALL ADJOINING TO SOUTH AND FRONT RAILINGS
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- TOWN TENEMENT FARMHOUSE INCLUDING FARMYARD WALL ADJOINING TO SOUTH AND FRONT RAILINGS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Giles in the Wood
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 53396 19015
Details
ST GILES ST GILES IN THE WOOD SS 53 19 IN THE WOOD 23/252 Town Tenement Farmhouse including - farmyard wall adjoining to south and front railings
GV II
Former estate farmhouse. Circa 1877 for the Honourable Mark George Kerr Rolle. Local stone rubble with red brick dressings (rear block is plastered); stone stacks with original brick chimneyshafts; slate roof with crested ridge tiles. Plan: L-plan house. The main block faces east and has a 2-room plan with central entrance rail. Both rooms have rear lateral stacks. 2-room rear kitchen block projects at right angles behind the left room and has an outer lateral stack. 2 storeys. Exterior: 3-window front is symmetrically arranged around the front doorway which has a gabled porch with a Tudor arch doorway (red brick with limestone imposts and keystone) containing the original part-glazed plank door. Windows have low segmental arches over, built of red brick with limestone keystones and contain original 16-pane sashes. Roof is gable-ended to right. To left the rear block continues to a front gable. This gable and the porch gable have cusped bargeboards. Interior: not inspected. From the right end of the front an original stone rubble wall projects southwards across the front of the farmyard. It includes a gateway; plan square section gate piers with brick quoins and low pyramid caps. The section to left of the gateway ramps down in the centre. A narrow strip of ground in front of the house and farmyard wall is enclosed by original cast iron railings; plain railings and bulbous standards with fleur-de-lys finials. House gate in same style. This was a Rolle estate village. The big house in the parish, Stevenstone Court (q.v.), now ruined, was rebuilt in 1872-3. The whole village, including the Church of St Giles (q.v.) was remodelled shortly afterwards.
Listing NGR: SS5339619015
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91863
- 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.
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