Lower Collipriest Farmhouse
LOWER COLLIPRIEST FARMHOUSE, COLLIPRIEST LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384804
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Collipriest Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER COLLIPRIEST FARMHOUSE, COLLIPRIEST LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384804
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Collipriest Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER COLLIPRIEST FARMHOUSE, COLLIPRIEST LANE
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:
- LOWER COLLIPRIEST FARMHOUSE, COLLIPRIEST LANE
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 95344 11085
Details
TIVERTON
SS91SE COLLIPRIEST LANE, Collipriest
848-1/7/67 Lower Collipriest Farmhouse
14/12/72
II
Farmhouse and attached barn. Probably C16 and C17, extended
later.
MATERIALS: stucco and render on probable cob and rubble.
rubble walls to barn; water-reed thatched roofs, hipped at the
corners and 2 hipped ends; rubble axial stack towards left of
front range, brick axial stack right of centre and brick stack
to front end of right-hand wing.
PLAN: built around rectangular courtyard with original 3-room
plan at the front, 2-room-plan wing at right angles behind
left-hand side that is linked to barn parallel at rear that
has heated domestic wing at right angles in front of its
right-hand side, just stopping short of the rear of the
original house.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical fenestration to 5-window
range front. Early/mid C20 steel windows throughout, most with
leaded glazing; those to the principal elevations with wooden
shutters. Left-hand return is 4-window range with central
doorway with half-round-plan thatched open porch.
Rear is barn front with 3 windows and 3 doorways including
central round-arched doorway fronting a through-passage.
Courtyard has 3-window range to rear of main block, with C20
lean-to verandah to ground floor. Irregularly-disposed
openings to other elevations.
INTERIOR: not inspected, except to inspect large C16 or C17
fireplace to centre of front range spanned by oak lintel with
integral complex-moulded cornice. Barn has lapped and pegged
collar trusses.
Lower Collipriest Farmhouse is believed to have the largest
thatched roof in Devon. Merits further inspection to unravel
its plan development and phasing.
Listing NGR: SS9534411085
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485263
- 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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