Lower Comberoy Farmhouse
LOWER COMBEROY FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333632
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Comberoy Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER COMBEROY FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333632
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Comberoy Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER COMBEROY 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:
- LOWER COMBEROY 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:
- SS 99177 00650
Details
SS 90 SE BROADCLYST
2/32 Lower Comberoy Farmhouse - (formerly listed as Lower 11.11.52 Comeroy Farmhouse) GV II
Farmhouse. C16 (or earlier) core with later additions and alterations. Cob, stone plinth, rendered under gabled-end slate roof. Originally a 3-room, through-passage plan, the lower end (to the left, ie. the front facing away from farmyard) retaining remains of its medieval smoke-blackened roof. A huge inserted external lateral back stack (with oven bulge) now heats the lower end; axial stack (at higher end of Hall) and parlour end stack, all with brick shafts. A C19 extension recessed to the lower end. 2 storeys throughout. Front: scattered fenestration, five 2-light timber casement windows above, 6 panes per light, lintels at eaves-line level; 1 doorway under pantiled open porch to left of a 2-light and 4-light window, all 6-pane lights, all C19. Rear: dominated by the large lateral stack and oven bulge. 2 entrances to the left of this approached by external steps, both under canopies supported by console brackets. The right-hand doorway (to passage) with planked door, with bead-moulded jamb and lintel; scattered fenestration: four 2-light windows above, lintels at eaves level; four 2 and 3-light windows below, all timber casements of the C19 and C20. C19 right-hand extension with one 2-light window above, and a doorway approached by steps. Interior: Lower end fireplace blocked; 3 cross beams, the central one only chamfered with run-out stops. Hall with one unchamfered axial beam. Parlour with 2 axial beams, chamfered with run-out stops; the front window has a shallow C19 window arch, the rear window with internal panelled shutters. Roof: 3-bay medieval roof, 2 principals, probably raised crucks, and a hip cruck, all smoke-blackened: principals differ from each other : higher-end truss closed, blades yoked and side-pegged at apex; lower end truss, side-pegged and morticed with cambered collar. Ridge-piece and trenched purlins. Comberoy was known formerly as 'Lower Comberoy'.
Listing NGR: SS9917700650
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 88347
- 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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