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Summary

A small, south-facing, two storey gable-ended house in the south-western corner of the western yard. Dated circa 1840.

Location

Protected Status

• Registered Park or Garden (II) 1001661: KING'S NYMPTON PARK
• Listed Building (II) 1152964: HOME FARM HOUSE
• Listed Building (II) 1325778: RANGE OF FARM BUILDINGS AROUND FARMYARDS TO NORTH AND NORTH EAST OF HOME FARMHOUSE

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SS61NE/118/1
• Old Listed Building Ref (II)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FARMHOUSE (Built, XIX - 1801 AD (Between) to 1900 AD (Between))

Full description

Child, P., 1999, Countryside Stewardship Application. Kingsnympton (Correspondence). SDV78960.

The farmhouse at the Home Farm is dated c1840 and is integral with the western yard.

Ordnance Survey, 2026, Mastermap 2026 (Cartographic). SDV366713.

Building in the south-west corner of the western yard.

Historic England, 2026, National Heritage List for England 2026, 1152964 (National Heritage List for England). SDV366714.

Farmhouse. Circa 1840 with late C19 alterations. Rendered cob on stone rubble plinth. Slate roof with gable-ends, with overhanging verges and eaves; plain bargeboards at the gable ends. Gable-end stacks with brick shafts. Plan: 2-room plan with a central entrance passage leading to a staircase behind the right-hand room. The left-hand room is probably the kitchen and the right-hand room the parlour. In the late C19 a single storey outshut was built at the left-hand end. Exterior: 2 storeys. Almost symmetrical 3-window front. Mid C19 3-light casements with glazing bars and slate cills. Central doorway with small rectangular overlight and a C19 plank door. The rear elevation backs onto the farm yard. The single storey outshut at the left- hand end is stone rubble with a slate lean-to roof and a small 2-light window at the front in a red brick surround. Interior: not inspected. This is the home farmhouse of Kings Nympton Park (q.v) and is part of a range of C19 planned farm buildings adjoining to the north and north-east.
Date first listed: 25th October 1988

Historic England, 2026, National Heritage List for England 2026, 1325778 (National Heritage List for England). SDV366714.

Range of planned farmbuildings around 2 farmyards. Probably began in C18 but remodelled and extended in circa mid and late C19. Stone rubble and cob walls. Slate and corrugated iron and asbestos sneet roofs with gabled and hipped ends. The Home Farmhouse (q.v) is in the south-west corner and backs on the west farmyard.
See listing description for full details of the farmyards.
Date first listed: 25th October 1988.

Keystone Historic Buildings Consultants, Nov 2003, Home Farm, Kingsnympton Park, Kings Nympton, Devon, 9-11, Pl. 3 (Report - Survey). SDV354971.

Farm Manager's Cottage in the south-west corner of the western yard. Both stylistic and map evidence show it to date from the mid 19th century. Built on a two-room and cross passage plan, it is a small two storey gable-ended house facing south with a hedged garden. Built of rubblestone, rendered and painted at the front with a slate roof and brick chimney stacks. A rubblestone lean-to service wing with brick dressings was built against the west end in the later 19th century. It contains a dairy/pantry at the front and a pumphouse to the rear.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6328 - Historic Building Assessment of Home Farm, Kingsnympton Park, Kings Nympton (Ref: K686)

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