STARR'S FARMHOUSE

STARR'S FARMHOUSE, SOWTON LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1333999
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: STARR'S FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: STARR'S FARMHOUSE, SOWTON LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1333999
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: STARR'S FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: STARR'S FARMHOUSE, SOWTON LANE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: STARR'S FARMHOUSE, SOWTON LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Sowton
National Grid Reference:: SX 97826 92891

Details

SOWTON SOWTON LANE (east side) SX 99 SE 1/45 Starr's Farmhouse - GV II

Farmhouse. Early to mid C17 with later alterations. Plastered cob and Heavitree stone, with a brick outshut; gabled-end thatched roof. 2-room, through-passage plan house, the hall to the left, and the parlour to the right of the passage, both heated by external end stacks; unheated room to rear of parlour, probably originally a dairy; later brick outshut to rear of hall comprising 2 service rooms. 2 storeys. Front: almost symmetrical 3-window range; one 3-light and two 4-light casement windows to first floor; one 4-light casement window to either side of doorway which has a segmental arch. Brick surrounds and arches to all windows. Left-hand side: 2-light casement to first floor; C20 window to outshut, the slated roof of which almost reaches the level of the eaves of the main range. Right-hand end: the wing (which is also thatched) with a 3-light casement window to both floors. Interior: only the hall was inspected; those features noted Dr Alcock are still in situ, namely the 3 chamfered ceiling beams, fireplace lintel, and the post between the doors to the 2 service rooms, and the lintel across them both (which confirms the existence of a C17 service area here before the outshut was rebuilt in brick). 2 ovolo moulded ceiling beams to parlour with complex stops; 2 jointed crucks to roof, one towards the ends of each of the principal rooms. N W Alcock's, 'Houses in an East Devon Parish', Trans. Devon Assoc., 94 (1962), pp. 208-9., p1.10; figs. 12 and 15, the latter figure giving the section of the stops and mouldings.

Listing NGR: SX9782692891

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Legacy System number:: 86181
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Transactions of the Devonshire Association' in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, , Vol. 94, (1962), 208-9

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.