Atway Farmhouse, Including Area Railing and Gate in the Cobbled Area Adjoining Atway Cottages

ATWAY FARMHOUSE, INCLUDING AREA RAILING AND GATE IN THE COBBLED AREA ADJOINING ATWAY COTTAGES, MORETONHAMPSTEAD ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1334103
Date first listed:
04-Apr-1978
List Entry Name:
Atway Farmhouse, Including Area Railing and Gate in the Cobbled Area Adjoining Atway Cottages
Statutory Address:
ATWAY FARMHOUSE, INCLUDING AREA RAILING AND GATE IN THE COBBLED AREA ADJOINING ATWAY COTTAGES, MORETONHAMPSTEAD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1334103
Date first listed:
04-Apr-1978
List Entry Name:
Atway Farmhouse, Including Area Railing and Gate in the Cobbled Area Adjoining Atway Cottages
Statutory Address 1:
ATWAY FARMHOUSE, INCLUDING AREA RAILING AND GATE IN THE COBBLED AREA ADJOINING ATWAY COTTAGES, MORETONHAMPSTEAD ROAD

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
ATWAY FARMHOUSE, INCLUDING AREA RAILING AND GATE IN THE COBBLED AREA ADJOINING ATWAY COTTAGES, MORETONHAMPSTEAD ROAD

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

County:
Devon
District:
Teignbridge (District Authority)
Parish:
Bovey Tracey
National Grid Reference:
SX 81288 79047

Details

BOVEY TRACEY MORETONHAMPSTEAD ROAD (north SX 87 NW side), Bovey Tracey Atway Farmhouse, including area 5/81 railing and gate in the cobbled - area adjoining Atway Cottages GV II

Farmhouse. C17 or earlier, with later additions. Solid, roughcast walls. Wheat reed thatch roofs, with a patch of slate at north-west corner; chimneystacks in the gables, except for 2 later brick stacks on additions at north-east and south- west ends. Plan consists of a main range at right-angles to the road and a cross- wing at the rear end, projecting slightly on the south-east. Main range has one heated room in ground storey with a through-passage next to the cross-wing; latter has one heated room on the north-east, probably with a minor room behind it. Each of the 2 heated rooms has an early staircase beside the fireplace. Added wing to north-east; lean-tos, probably added, behind the older part of the house on north- west side. 2 storeys, with single-storey lean-to. Principal south-east front of main range is 2 windows wide. Ground storey has plank door to right and a single window to left; windows all have C19 2-light wood casements with 2 panes per light. Both main range and cross-wing have projecting chimneystacks of granite ashlar, with offsets and tapered tops; the cross-wing stack has an added brick shaft. To the left of each stack is a slit window lighting a staircase. The gable of main range, towards the road, has in addition a second-storey window to right of the stack, this with a C19 2-light wood casement with 2 panes per light; there is a similar window in the side-wall of the lean-to fronting the road. Gable of cross- wing has 1 window in each storey to right of stack; casements as in main range, except that the ground-storey window has transom-lights. The added north-east wing has at left-hand end a 4-panelled door with cast-iron knocker and 3-pane fanlight; above it is a wood casement as in main range. Old cobbled surface to south-east, between the farmhouse and Atway Cottages (q.v.). The C19 garden railings in this area, and the C19 iron gate fronting the road, are included in the listing. Interior: ground-storey room in main range has chamfered beam with scroll-stops. Door from passage to cross-wing has chamfered wood frame, the jambs having scroll- stops top and bottom. Ground-storey room in cross-wing has chamfered beams; large fireplace with granite jambs and wood lintel, the latter ovolo-moulded with raised run-out stops. Staircase to right of fireplace has wood door-frame with cranked head. This house and Atway Cottages (q.v.) make an excellent group fronting the Moretonhampstead Road.

Listing NGR: SX8128879047

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
84524
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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