Francis Court Farmhouse
FRANCIS COURT FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333630
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Francis Court Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- FRANCIS COURT FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333630
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Francis Court Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- FRANCIS COURT 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:
- FRANCIS COURT FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Broad Clyst
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 97700 99489
Details
SX 99 NE BROADCLYST
5/11 Francis Court Farmhouse -
- II
Farmhouse. C15 core, with major re-modellings in late C16/early C17 and C19. Cob and volcanic trap mix, rendered, under dry slate gabled-end roof. Originally a 3- room through-passage plan, with a fragment of a smoke-blackened roof surviving. Now L-shaped, with addition of parlour wing to rear of left-hand end. Internal end stacks, and a lateral front stack just below roof-ridge line (but formerly an axial stack before late C19 re-roofing) backing on to former passage. External end stack to parlour wing. 2 storeys throughout. Front: Scattered fenestration; three 2-light windows above, lintels at wall-plate level; C19 panelled door to passage, under tiled and boarded porch; one 2-light and one 3-light window to left, one 3-light window to right of passage entrance. All timber casements with 6 panes per light. Lean-to and another front entrance with C19 panelled door to extreme right-hand end. Clear evidence to rear (before present plaster applied) of C19 heightening. Opposed rear cross-passage door; C20 French windows to wing. Interior: Kitchen at lower end to right of passage with 2 beams, both chamfered with hollow step stops; former end fireplace partially dismantled. Hall fireplace with chamfered stone jambs and 2 recesses in rear wall and a course of vertical slates; 1 axial beam, chamfered unstopped. Parlour wing with a good ceiling of circa 1600: 1 large cross beam with composite moulding of ovolo and cavetto, and 12 subordinate axial beams to each side, with double-concave mouldings, stopped. Roof: lower end completely C19. Fragments of a medieval roof survive in the form of a hip cruck at the left hand end, and (now resting on inserted axial stack) one blade and side-pegged yoke of a smoke-blackened principal, possibly a jointed cruck. The C19 roof continues over the entire length of house. C19 water hand pump under right-hand front porch.
Listing NGR: SX9770099489
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 88327
- 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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