West Forde Farmhouse
WEST FORDE FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366149
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- West Forde Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WEST FORDE FARMHOUSE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/12578/31
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366149
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- West Forde Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST FORDE 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:
- WEST FORDE FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cheriton Fitzpaine
- National Grid Reference:
- SS8777005220
Details
CHERITON FITZPAINE
SS 80 NE
7/11
- West Forde Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse. Late C17-early C18, possibly earlier core; extensively remodelled in
late C19. Plastered cob and rubble; rubble and brick stacks; coated slate roof.
Long gable-ended 4-room plan house facing farmyard to west. Through-passage between
right (southern) 2-rooms with stacks backing onto passage on each side. Another
axial stack between 2 left (northern) rooms. 2 storeys. Irregular 5-window front.
Main door to right passage is late C19 6-panel door with panelled reveals and
contemporary flat-roofed porch on cast iron posts. It is flanked by a 12-pane sash
to the right and a 16-pane sash to left. The 3 windows further left are late C19 and
C20 casements, the latter without glazing bars. There are 2 C20 doors between these
windows. First floor windows are regular late C19 casements with glazing bars and
left end window is blind with a painted casement. The east facing garden front has a
symmetrical 3-window arrangement at left (south) end around central passage door; a
6-panel door with late C19 porch with trellis sides and elliptical arch vallance with
openwork enrichment under monopitch roof. Large 16-pane sash to right, a replacement
casement to left and 3 small 16-pane sashes to first floor. Late C19 and C20
casements at right end. Interior is mostly result of late C19 refurbishment but roof
structure is series of late C17-early C18 A-frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed
collars.
Listing NGR: SS8777005220
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 96464
- 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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