Higher Withleigh Farmhouse
HIGHER WITHLEIGH FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384724
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Withleigh Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHER WITHLEIGH FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384724
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Higher Withleigh Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHER WITHLEIGH 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:
- HIGHER WITHLEIGH 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 90880 12452
Details
TIVERTON
SS91SW WITHLEIGH
848-1/4/340 Higher Withleigh Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse. C16 or C17, remodelled mid C19. Rendered cob walls;
dry slate roof; brick end stacks and former lateral stack
projecting from rear roof slope; cast-iron ogee gutters.
Originally a 3-room and probable through-passage plan,
extended at rear in the C19 and the roof remodelled to cover
the extensions plus later C19 dairy lean-tos behind.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; slightly irregular 4-window range. Early
C19 16-pane hornless sashes to 1st floor; similar tripartite
sash to ground-floor right, the other 2 ground-floor windows
replaced mid/late C20 in original openings, the central (hall)
window is very wide but reduced from original width. Doorway
with old panelled and glazed door towards left and doorway
with C20 door central to fenestration towards right.
INTERIOR: has large C17 hall fireplace with later fireplace
built within it at rear of room; C17 axial beam with run-out
stops; also in hall some C19 panelled doors; C19 king-post
roof structure.
Listing NGR: SS9088012452
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485182
- 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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