Roliphants Farmhouse
ROLIPHANTS FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384690
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Roliphants Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ROLIPHANTS FARMHOUSE
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- Date:
- 2007-06-06
- Reference:
- IOE01/16623/29
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384690
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Roliphants Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROLIPHANTS 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:
- ROLIPHANTS 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 99110 14912
Details
TIVERTON
SS91SE Roliphants Farmhouse
848-1/7/18
II
Farmhouse. C17 or possibly earlier. Rendered cob walls;
water-reed thatched roof except for concrete tiles to C20 rear
lean-to; outbuilt rubble stack on the left, axial stack right
of hall and stack slightly right and rear of this.
PLAN: original 3-room plan with lower end (right) probably
lengthened later, possibly originally an open hall; the house
further lengthened at far right as a cider house but now
converted to domestic use.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 4-window range. Early C19 mullioned
3-light casements to 1st floor, C20 3-light casements below. 2
porches with buttressing.
INTERIOR: has probable original roof structure with high
collars and pegged purlins; light smoke-blackening over the
presumed hall, left of centre. There is a similar, but clean
roof structure to lower end which is divided from the hall by
a chimney wall containing 2 fireplaces. There is a thick wall
between the hall and the left-hand room (the presumed parlour)
and a there is a cob-nogged timber-framed partition above
dividing the hall roof space from the parlour roof which was
not inspected. The hall has a C17 fireplace with 2 bread ovens
plus a cream oven on its left, and backing onto this is a C19
fireplace serving the lower end, with evidence of smoking
chamber to its right. A rounded shape to the wall in front of
the hall stack is the presumed evidence for the former C17
staircase. There is a wooden winder staircase on the far right
of the lower end based on the old staircase that it replaced.
The fireplace to the left-hand room has an ovolo-moulded
lintel with stops not visible; hall fireplace has large oak
lintel with chamfer or moulding removed. The chamfered oak
crossbeam of the hall has tongue stops; the oak axial beam of
the room on the left is roughly chamfered.
Lower end room has 2 roughly-chamfered elm beams, and on its
right is a chamfered oak beam with tongue stops, possibly
introduced from somewhere else, but the stops are in the right
position for the depth of the room.
As with many Devon farmhouses, the plan development has some
contradictory evidence and there must remain some conjecture
about both the phasing and dating pending more detailed
examination of the fabric.
Listing NGR: SS9911014912
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485144
- 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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