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Summary

18th-19th century farmhouse, although the chimney is dated 1704.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1098381: PENNY HILL FARM HOUSE

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: ST20SW/87
• Old Listed Building Ref (II): 88233

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FARMHOUSE (Built, XVIII to XIX - 1701 AD to 1900 AD)

Full description

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV103919.

Doe/hhr:62:part of east devon(19/10/1984)178.

Department of Environment, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV329495.

Penny hill farmhouse, penny hill. Circa c18/19, although chimney is dated 1704. Stone rubble with dressed stone quoins. Two storey (doe).

Clements, H. A., 1994, Survey of Farmsteads in the Devon Part of the Blackdown Hills (Report - Survey). SDV344050.

Humphreys, C., 2000, Penny Hill Farm, BH004001 (Ground Photograph). SDV349753.

Humphreys, C., 2000, Penny Hill, BH004022-BH004025 (Un-published). SDV350981.

Devon and Somerset County Councils, 2000-2002, Historic Farmsteads Database, Building BH004 (Machine readable data file). SDV349681.

Visited 6th June 2000 by Colin Humphreys. Two storey farmhouse with a regular three window front, constructed from local rubblestone with a slate roof, built in the mid to late 19th century. A datestone in the chimney showing 1704 indicates that there could be some earlier work in the building.

Ordnance Survey, 2011, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV346129.

Historic England, 2015, National Heritage List for England (National Heritage List for England). SDV358087.

Penny Hill Farm House. Farm house. Circa C18 - 19, although chimney is dated 1704. Stone rubble with dressed stone quoins. Slate roof with stone coping to gable ends. Two storeys. Three window range. C19 and modern three-light casements. Central glazed door and gabled porch with elliptical arch. Ashlar chimney stacks over gable ends.

Alcock, N., 2015, The Development of the Vernacular House in South-West England, 1500-1700, 27; Fig 1.17 (Article in Monograph). SDV365373.

Penny Hill, dated 1704 on its chimney, represents a new type of farmhouse which appeared at the end of the 17th century. This is the four-room, central stair-passage house, sometimes called the “Georgian farmhouse”. This plan-form might appear to be a development from rear lean-to houses like Moxhayes (SDV20551), but the type is much more widely distributed than just in the South-West, with the earliest examples so far identified being in the West Midlands. Indeed, because of the survival of earlier houses, this type is relatively rare in Devon.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV4655 - Survey of Farmsteads in the Blackdown Hills

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