Milton Farmhouse
MILTON FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333736
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Milton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MILTON FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1333736
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Milton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILTON 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:
- MILTON 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:
- ST0809900659
Details
ST 00 SE
3/86
PAYHEMBURY
Milton Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. C16 and C17, re-roofed and modernised in the late C18 - early C19,
renovated circa 1980. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; stone rubble or cot
stack with plastered chimneyshafts; asbestos slate roof.
Plan and development: 4-room-and-through-passage plan house facing south-west. In
fact the left (south-west) end room is a holiday cottage added circa 1980 onto the
lower end of the main farmhouse. Lower end parlour with former end stack backing
onto the cottage. The main stair rises from the passage behind the parlour. The
hall has an axial stack backing onto the passage. At the right end is a small
unheated inner room. It is now used as a kitchen but formerly was a service room,
probably buttery, pantry or dairy. The hall then served as the kitchen.
The house was thoroughly modernised in the late C18 - early C19. The roof structure
was replaced at the same time. Thus it is difficult to determine the early
development of the house. Nevertheless the inner room chamber jetties into the hall
proving that it originated as a C16 open hall house. 2 storeys with secondary lean-
to outshot across the back.
Exterior: front is heavily buttressed and has a regular but not symmetrical 4-
window front of circa 1980 casements with glazing bars. Passage front doorway is
roughly central and contains a late C19 - early C20 4-panel door behind a
contemporary gabled porch on plain posts. Roof is gable-ended.
Interior: shows mostly the result of the late C18 - early C19 modernisation and
most of the structural detail is hidden behind plaster of that date. Nevertheless
the early layout is well-preserved. The fireplaces are blocked by C19 and C20
grates although part of a late C16 - early C17 hollow-chamfered oak lintel shows to
the hall fireplace. All the ceiling beams are boxed in although there is evidence
of an internal jetty at the upper end of the hall. Passage rear doorway has a late
C16 - early C17 oak doorframe with cambered head and chamfered surround. Roof is
carried on late C18 - early C19 A-frame trusses with spiked lap-jointed collars and
X-apexes.
Care should be taken during any internal alterations here lest hidden C16 or C17
features be disturbed.
Listing NGR: ST0809900659
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86843
- 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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