LURCOMBE FARMHOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1334245
Date first listed:: 23-Aug-1955
List Entry Name:: LURCOMBE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: LURCOMBE FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1334245
Date first listed:: 23-Aug-1955
List Entry Name:: LURCOMBE FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: LURCOMBE 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:: LURCOMBE 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 Park:: DARTMOOR
National Grid Reference:: SX 79888 73362

Details

BICKINGTON SX 77 SE 7/12 Lurcombe Farmhouse 23.8.55 GV II

Farmhouse. Probably C16 or earlier, altered C17, early C18 and mid C19; C20 additions at the rear. Rendered cob with some stone. Slated roof. Large projecting chimneystack in centre of front wall, immediately left of the entrance- porch; attached flue in front, probably a brick addition. C19 stack on left gable and another at right-hand end, on front slope of roof. 3-room and through-passage plan with former parlour probably at upper end and kitchen at lower end, although the 'parlour' seems to have had a domestic function latterly; through-passage has been widened to insert a staircase. 2 storeys. 4-window front, the second bay from right a 2-storeyed entrance-porch. Windows mostly have C20 wood casements with glazing-bars, but left-hand second-storey window is a C19 casement of 4 lights with 3 panes per light; C20 French window in right-hand bay of ground storey. Gabled entrance-porch, the ground-storey open-fronted with solid side-walls, probably of stone faced with some brick, the upper storey timber-framed. The timber-framing at the front is partly exposed and is of a thin C18 or C19 character; it rests on a chamfered C20 lintel. Inside the porch, at either side, are wooden seats with beaded edges, their ends rounded at the front. Door is C19, with 2 sunk panels at the bottom and 4 panes of glass above. At rear of through- passage the back doorway (now within a C20 extension) has a granite lintel, probably of early C18, carved with 2 large S-scrolls resembling a swan-neck pediment; jambs rebuilt. Interior: through-passage has partition on hall side faced at the rear end with wide old planks, horizontally laid and with bead-moulded edges; the wall behind is said to be of concrete block. Hall fireplace has hollow-moulded granite jamb on right with convex stop at the foot; wood lintel, probably a C17 replacement, is chamfered with notched scroll-stops. Upper-floor beam, which is chamfered with run-out stops, is laid lengthwise. At upper end is a plank-and-muntin screen, probably of C18, with ovolo-moulded studs; it is not of oak, but possibly of elm. Room at upper end, possibly a parlour originally, has a big granite trough partly set into rear wall; it has a small ledge at either end on the inside and is believed to have been used for salting. The room at lower end has a very large gable-fireplace with a C20 wood lintel. Upper-floor beams are chamfered with indeterminate stops, possibly straight-cuts. In second storey is a re-set late C16 or C17 wooden window, originally in a cob wall inside the former outbuilding (now a cottage) immediately north-west of the house; it is of 3 lights with flat-splay mullions having run-out stops at the top, the left-hand light retaining its original upright, diagonally set bar. Roof-structure is entirely C19, having king- post-and-ridge trusses with upward braces from the king-post; it closely resembles the roof of the shippon (separately listed), which has a datestone of 1851.

Listing NGR: SX7988873362

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Legacy System number:: 85210
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.