Higher Cleave Farmhouse
HIGHER CLEAVE FARMHOUSE, CLEAVE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333286
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Cleave Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER CLEAVE FARMHOUSE, CLEAVE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333286
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Cleave Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER CLEAVE FARMHOUSE, CLEAVE LANE
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:
- HIGHER CLEAVE FARMHOUSE, CLEAVE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Offwell
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 20207 00779
Details
ST 20 SW OFFWELL CLEAVE LANE
2/102 Higher Cleave Farmhouse - - II Farmhouses. C16 and C17 with some C19 and C20 modernisation. Exposed local stone and flint rubble; stone rubble stacks topped with C20 brick and stone rubble; thatch roof, corrugated asbestos to rear outshot. Plan and development: 3-room-and-through-passage plan house facing north-east and built across a gentle hillslope. At the left (south-east) end there is an inner room parlour with a gable-end stack and winder or newel stair rising alongside. Next to it is the hall with an axial stack backing onto the passage and a stair turret projects to rear. At the right (north-west) end is the service end kitchen which has a gable end stack. Since no internal inspection was available at the time of this survey it is not possible to outline the early development of the house. Nevertheless it seems likely that it was originally some form of open hall house. The owner reports that the roof timbers are clean and therefore the hall fireplace is probably an original feature and the farmhouse therefore probably dates from the mid or late C16. House is 2 storeys with secondary outshots to rear of the passage and service end kitchen. Exterior: irregular 5-window front of C20 casements with glazing bars. The passage front doorway is right of centre and now contains a late C19 part-glazed plank door with C20 corrugated iron hood. The main roof is gable-ended. In the left end there is a probably C17 oak-framed tiny stair window containing rectangular panes of leaded glass. Interior: was not available for inspection at the time of this survey. However the owner reports that there remains a great deal of C16 and C17 carpentry detail including a clean roof carried on jointed cruck trusses. A full internal survey should be carried out here before any alterations lest C16 or C17 features be disturbed. Cleave alias Clive or La Clyve was a Domesday settlement. Source. Devon SMR.
Listing NGR: ST2020700779
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 88772
- 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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