List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: TOWN FARMHOUSE
List Entry Number: 1097317
Location
TOWN FARMHOUSE, MAIN STREET
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Devon
District: Teignbridge
District Type: District Authority
Parish: Abbotskerswell
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 23-Aug-1955
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 84726
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List Entry Description
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History
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Details
SX 86 NE ABBOTSKERSWELL MAIN STREET
Abbotskerswell
3/22 Town Farmhouse
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23.8.55
GV II
Farmhouse, now house, formerly 2 cottages. C16 with probably C18 rear wing, C20
extension. Rendered rubble walls exposed at side. Hipped thatched roof. Large
slightly projecting rendered rubble rear lateral stack, similar stack at left gable
end, brick stack to right hand gable end.
Originally 3 room and through-passage plan lower end to the right, with screens
passage and rear lateral fireplace to hall. Gable end fireplace to lower room.
Inner room possibly unheated originally. Unheated rear wing added behind inner room
probably in C18. Was apparently coverted into 3 cottages in C19, then became 2, at
present under 1 ownership but one end is self-contained. Passage has been removed.
Probably C20 outshut at rear of hall.
2 storeys. Asymmetrical 5 window front of C20 2-light casements with glazing bars.
2 C20 glazed doors, one towards left end and one to right of centre to former
passage under rustic thatch porch. At rear is wing to right and outshut to its
left.
Interior: Plain wooden lintel to lower end fireplace, probably C18. C16 plank and
muntin screen survives between lower room and former passage, partially concealed.
It has chamfered head beam and muntins with mason's mitres and diagonal cut stops.
Doorway is chamfered with depressed 4-centred head. Hall fireplace has chamfered
wood lintel partially filled in underneath obscuring stops. Chamfered cross beam
with hollow step stops, a few similarly decorated joists survive. Roof space not
inspected but according to owner contains rough straight principals with lapped and
pegged collars, probably C18/C19.
This house occupies a prominent position in the village centre to which its
traditional facade makes an important contribution; the surviving early features
inside suggest it was built as a good quality farmhouse.
Listing NGR: SX8570968788
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Map
National Grid Reference: SX 85709 68788
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