Marsh Barton Farmhouse
MARSH BARTON FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334012
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Marsh Barton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MARSH BARTON FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334012
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Marsh Barton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARSH BARTON 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:
- MARSH BARTON FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Clyst St. George
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 97782 88232
Details
CLYST ST GEORGE SX 98 NE 2/6 Marsh Barton Farmhouse -
- II
2 dwellings, formerly a single farmhouse. Possibly C16, but much altered. Roughcast cob, on stone footings, with gabled-end and hipped roof. Probably a 3- room, through-passage house, the lower end to the right of the passage, with a front parlour wing, 2 rooms in length. 2 storeys. Front: 3-window range, with 3-light casement windows to first floor, similar wlndows to hall and service end. Two 3-light windows to each floor of inner face of parlour wing, with a central doorway with glazed porch. C19 and C20 fenestration elsewhere. An impressive array of chimney stacks is the buildings most conspicuous feature: there are 6 in all, all rendered; 3 axial (or almost axial) + 2 end stacks, and 1 lateral stack to the wing. It is difficult to be certain which of these stacks are original; that backing onto the passage is entirely C20. Interior: some roughly chamfered ceiling beams, and a chamfered lintel to hall fireplace. C18 pegged roof to wing. The house is of considerable historical interest, as it was the home of the Sokespitch family from the middle of the C12 to the late C18; they gradually reclaimed the surrounding marshland and have been the subject of a study by W G Hoskins, Old Devon (1966, reprinted 1971), pp. 121-34.
Listing NGR: SX9778288232
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 86143
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hoskins, WG, Old Devon, (1966), 121-34
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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