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HER Number:MDV37487
Name:Hole Farmhouse, Witheridge

Summary

Farmhouse dating to the late 17th century, with a long, single room depth plan.

Location

Grid Reference:SS 814 152
Map Sheet:SS81NW
Admin AreaDevon
Civil ParishWitheridge
DistrictNorth Devon
Ecclesiastical ParishWITHERIDGE

Protected Status

Other References/Statuses

  • Old DCC SMR Ref: SS81NW/37
  • Old Listed Building Ref (II)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

  • FARMHOUSE (Built, XVII to XIX - 1601 AD (Between) to 1900 AD (Between))

Full description

Department of Environment, 1987, Witheridge, 58 (List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest). SDV338940.

Hole Farmhouse. Farmhouse. Late C17, late C18 and C19 refenestration. Rubble core with rendering and roughcast and whitewashed, hipped slate roof stacks with brick shafts.
Plan and development: long single room depth plan; lobby entrance to right 2 storeyed porch projecting over door opening. This lobby backs onto a stack which heats rooms to the left and the right. The right room a small parlour, to left a kitchen with a large fireplace; beyond it to the left a hall with a rear lateral stack; beyond this room to the left an inner room with axial stack, further room of unknown purpose to the left of this. In the C20 the left room and the inner room altered; door opening into the hall from outside blocked.
Exterior: 2-storey long front; 3:4:1:1 bays, 2 and 3-light casements with glazing bars, all c19; 4 sash windows to the right, 9 and 12-panes, exposed sash boxes; eighth window from the left in projecting 2-storeyed porch with a front-facing gable; door opening with a 6-panelled door.
Interior: with featureless parlour to the right; kitchen with fireplace with a bressumer with chamfer. Hall with rear lateral stack with chamfered bressumer with step stops, chamfered axial ceiling beam with similar stops. Part of C17 collar-beam roof survives, remainder of the roof was replaced in C19.

Ordnance Survey, 2023, Mastermap 2023 (Cartographic). SDV365227.

Farmhouse shown.

Sources / Further Reading

SDV338940List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest: Department of Environment. 1987. Witheridge. Historic Houses Register. Unknown. 58.
SDV365227Cartographic: Ordnance Survey. 2023. Mastermap 2023. Ordnance Survey Digital Mapping. Digital. [Mapped feature: #140485 ]

Associated Monuments

MDV37488Related to: Bank Barn at Hole Farm, Witheridge (Building)

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded


Date Last Edited:Apr 12 2023 11:35AM