Yellingham Farmhouse
YELLINGHAM FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333711
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Yellingham Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- YELLINGHAM FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333711
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Yellingham Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- YELLINGHAM 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:
- YELLINGHAM FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Payhembury
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 08318 00480
Details
FENITON ST 00 SE 3/78 Yellingham Farmhouse - - II
Farmhouse. Mid C16 witn C17 improvements; reduced in size in the late C19, modernised circa 1970 wnen a barn was brought into domestic use. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble stacks topped with C19 and C20 brick; asbestos slate, formerly thatch. Plan and development: farmhouse has a 3-room plan and faces south. Large right room is the kitchen with an axial stack backing onto the centre room, a small unheated room with stair turret projecting to rear. The left (west) end room is the parlour with a gable-end stack. Circa 1970 the partition between this and the centre room was removed. 1-room plan former dairy block projects to rear of the parlour. The kitchen is the C20 conversion. The other 2 rooms of the main block are in fact the hall and inner room of a C16 3-room-and-through-passage plan house. The parlour/former hall stack once backed onto the passage but passage and service end were demolished in the C19. Hall was floored over and dairy block added in the early - mid C17. 2 storeys. Exterior: irregular 4-window front of C20 casements with glazing bars. Front doorway is at the left end and contains a C19 plank door behind a contemporary gabled porch with shaped bargeboards. Roof is gable-ended. Interior: no carpentry detail is exposed in the former inner room and only the headbeam remains of an oak plank-and-muntin screen between hall and inner room. Hall fireplace is blocked by a C19 grate. Hall and dairy crossbeams are chamfered with step stops. Roof over this section is carried on side-pegged jointed cruck trusses. The roofspace is inaccessible but the trusses are said to be clean.
Listing NGR: ST0831800480
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86813
- 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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