Nethercott Farmhouse
NETHERCOTT FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333030
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Nethercott Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- NETHERCOTT FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333030
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Nethercott Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- NETHERCOTT FARMHOUSE
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:
- NETHERCOTT FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Broadwoodwidger
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 40142 90114
Details
BROADWOODWIDGER SX 49 SW 6/40 Nethercott Farmhouse - GV II Farmhouse. Circa late C17 with minor C19 alterations and a small C20 rear addition. Rendered colourwashed cob with a slate roof gabled at ends, formerly thatched. 2 chimneys with brick shafts, one at the left gable end, one axial. Small 3 room and through passage house with the hall heated from a stack backing on to the passage, an unheated inner room possibly used as a dairy and a lower end room which may have been unheated originally but which was used as a heated parlour in the C19. The stairs run behind a partition at the rear of the hall. In the circa late C19 the hall was enlarged by a single-storey lean-to and the garden front refenestrated. In the late C20 a brick lean-to was added at the front of the lower end room. 2 storeys. 3- window garden elevation (the rear of the C17 house) with a late C19/early C20 glazed gabled porch to the left leading into the through passage and a half-glazed door to the right leading into the dairy. Regular fenestration of late C19/early C20 4-pane sashes and casement windows with glazing bars. Interior The former front door, now within the C20 lean-to, is a circa late C17 studded 3 plank door in an old doorframe. The hall fireplace has stone rubble jambs and a timber lintel. The remains of a C19 plank dado on the hall wall opposite the fireplace continues into the lean-to extension to the hall. The lower end chimney piece is C19 with a reeded surround. Inner room not inspected but said to have a forked cross beam supported on a post (Alcock). The interior of the house is very unaltered since the late C19. Alcock, MS notes on Broadwoodwidger Parish.
Listing NGR: SX4014290114
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 90742
- 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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