Prowses Farmhouse
PROWSES FARMHOUSE, WEST MANLEY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384978
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Prowses Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- PROWSES FARMHOUSE, WEST MANLEY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384978
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Prowses Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- PROWSES FARMHOUSE, WEST MANLEY 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:
- PROWSES FARMHOUSE, WEST MANLEY 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 98368 12536
Details
TIVERTON
SS91SE WEST MANLEY LANE
848-1/7/36 (North side)
19/02/93 Prowses Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. Probably C16. Rendered cob with stone rubble
plinth; water reed thatched roof; stone end stacks including
external stack to left. 2-room plan plus lean-to possible
extension on the right and former probable cider loft at rear
left rebuilt 1993-4 as domestic wing.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus lean-to on the right; 3-window range
with doorway approximately central to the 2-storey part. Old
planked door; 1993-4 casement windows.
INTERIOR: has original smoke-blackened purlins and some
rafters above an otherwise probable C18 roof structure.
Room on the left has large partly-blocked C17 fireplace and a
broad-chamfered oak crossbeam.
Room right of entrance hall has a hollow-chamfered oak
crossbeam and probable re-used head of C16 former muntin and
plank screen as end beam on the right; C17 fireplace with
later oven and re-used chamfered oak beam (with blocked joist
sockets) as replacement lintel.
Prowses Farmhouse has the superficial character and appearance
of an C18 house, but as with many Devon houses, on closer
examination there is evidence for a much older fabric.
Listing NGR: SS9836812536
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485437
- 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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