Pool Anthony Farmhouse
POOL ANTHONY FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384689
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Pool Anthony Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- POOL ANTHONY FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384689
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Pool Anthony Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- POOL ANTHONY 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:
- POOL ANTHONY FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tiverton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 97771 12770
Details
TIVERTON
SS91SE Pool Anthony Farmhouse
848-1/7/17
II
Farmhouse. C16, remodelled mid/late C19. Rendered rubble and
possibly cob; dry slate roofs with 4 gabled dormers to the
front of the main roof, projecting eaves; 3 rear lateral brick
stacks and axial brick stack towards right.
PLAN: long 4-room plan with screens passage between large
lower end (at lower level) on the left and hall on the right,
both rooms with rear lateral fireplaces. Room right of hall
has fireplace to cross wall on right and far right-hand room
has rear lateral fireplace. C19 extensions include servants'
quarters at right angles in front of lower end, stair wing
rear of hall and pantry lean-to rear of lower end.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 4-window range right of passage. Early
C20 4-pane horned sashes replacing mid/late C19 16-pane
2-light casement windows, one of which survives to
ground-floor left (also surviving to servants' wing and one to
rear). Fire insurance plaque over doorway on left; planked
door within C18 frame; open verandah in front of doorway.
There is trellised porch with elliptically-arched doorway in
front of another doorway towards right, the doors partly
glazed and with margin panes.
INTERIOR: has fine muntin and plank screens with diagonal
stops and shouldered arched doorways. There is an opening in
the screen, later mostly blocked, left of hall doorway. Hall
ceiling has intersecting chamfered beams with tongue stops.
Lower end has similar crossbeam right of fireplace and later
beam with similar but smaller detail left of fireplace; oven
behind left-hand jamb of fireplace and old straight-flight
staircase right of fireplace.
C19 scissor-truss roof structure except for 1 original jointed
cruck partly visible in the lower end near the junction with
the servants' quarters.
The later C19 external appearance of Pool Anthony Farmhouse
belies the considerable interest of the original house within.
Listing NGR: SS9777112770
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485143
- 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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