FARLACOMBE FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1334244
Date first listed:: 23-Aug-1955
List Entry Name:: FARLACOMBE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: FARLACOMBE FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1334244
Date first listed:: 23-Aug-1955
List Entry Name:: FARLACOMBE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: FARLACOMBE FARMHOUSE

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:: FARLACOMBE FARMHOUSE

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

County:: Devon
District:: Teignbridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Bickington
National Grid Reference:: SX 79244 71113

Details

BICKINGTON SX 77 SE 7/8 Farlacombe Farmhouse 23.8.55 - II

Farmhouse. Late C16 or C17 with later additions at the rear. Roughcast stone and cob. Asbestos-slated roofs, hipped at right-hand end and at back of rear wing. 3 large projecting chimneystacks, 2 in centre and at right-hand end of front wall, 1 in rear wall at left-hand end. The right-hand stack in front wall has offsets and the centre stack an added shaft on top. Rear stack has a cap formed by a projecting course of slates just below the top; short added shaft on top and an added brick shaft to one side. 3-room and through-passage plan, all 3 rooms probably with fireplaces by C17, including the large room at upper end; rooms separated by thick, solid walls, these rising to at least upper-storey level. Stair turret behind centre room (former hall). 2-storeyed rear wing at lower end; single-storey lean-to behind hall, linking wing to stair turret. 2 storeys, apart from the single-storey lean-to. 3-window front, but left-hand upper-storey room has no front window. Windows mostly C19 wood casements with glazing-bars, many of them containing old glass. Ground-storey windows have 8 panes per light, except for a 4-paned single-light window to right of centre stack. Upper-storey windows have 4 panes per light. Main doorway between the 2 front stacks has a C19 gabled brick porch; 6-panelled front door, the 4 lower panels flush and the top 2 glazed, with cast-iron knocker. Secondary doorway, to right of left-hand window, has plank door with wrought-iron strap hinges; a small window has been cut into it. Both doorway and window to left of it have a C20 glazed porch built out in front. In right-hand gable, to left of each storey, is a C19 triple sash wood window, each with its centre light replaced by a single barred sash, hinged at the top. Interior: left-hand ground-storey room has heavy chamfered joists running from front to back, and in rear wall a large fireplace with chamfered wood lintel. Centre ground-storey room (the former hall) is said to have a large open fireplace in front wall, now blocked in and containing a small C20 fireplace. In rear wall is the doorway to stair-turret. This has chamfered wood jambs with scroll-stops; original plank door with scratch mouldings and wrought-iron strap-hinges having fleurs-de-lis terminals. Winding newel stair, rounded inside but rectangular externally. Old wood newel post and thick wood treads; risers are cement- rendered, possibly concealing stone. Roof-trusses have plain feet rising directly from the wall-tops; roof-space not inspected. There are several good C19 plank doors in the house.

Listing NGR: SX7924471113

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Legacy System number:: 85206
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.