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Summary

The site was originally known as Manor Farm, the south range of which dates to at least the 17th century. The original farmhouse appears to have been a cross-passage house which was subject to several phases of extension. The farm was sold after the end of the Second World War and the site changed in the mid 20th century with an outbuilding being used as an abbatoir and a shop inserted into the main building. A series of detached outbuildings was converted in the late 20th century and the farmhouse divided into several separate dwellings. The former cross passage house was renamed The Longhouse.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1325181: MANOR FARMHOUSE

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FARMHOUSE (Built, XVII - 1601 AD to 1700 AD (Between))

Full description

Historic England, 07/03/2017, The Longhouse, The Old Wood House, Manor Farm Cottage and The Granary, Totnes Road, Strete (List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest). SDV360196.

Historic England has completed their initial assessment of consider whether its entry on the List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest should be revised.

The site was originally known as Manor Farm and it was one of three farms around which the settlement of Strete developed. The surviving historic fabric indicates the S range dates to at least C16/C17, with possible earlier origins. The original building appears to have been a cross-passage house with three or four rooms which has been subject to various phases of extensions, including the addition of a stair tower to the S at a later date. A kitchen range and store loft was added to the NE, and an implement store and agricultural wing added to the NW end, circa late C18/early C19. Manor Farm appears on an 1816 map, with a parallel range to the rear and a rear cross wing. The footprint is similar on the 1840 Tithe map. During the Second World War all of Strete was evacuated due to nearby live ammunition manoeuvres being carried out by the Allied forces on the east Devon coast. After the end of the war the farm was sold and in the mid-C20 an outbuilding to the S was used as an abattoir, and a shop was inserted in the main building’s N wing. In the late C20 a series of detached outbuildings were converted into dwellings, and the farmhouse and its attached agricultural and kitchen range were subdivided into three dwellings; this included the raising of the end of the rear wingfrom one to two storeys. Subsequently the central range was subdivided again, creating a fourth separate dwelling.

EXTERNAL: THE LONGHOUSE is a two-storey building topped by a pitched roof with a hipped end to the E and gabled to the W. There is an off-centre brick stack over the roof ridge, and lateral stacks at either end of this range. The principal (S) elevation is asymmetrical and has five bays. The main entrance is to the right-of-centre, with a C19 studded plank door with wrought-iron hinges within a C20 pitch-roof porch. Most of the windows are late C19, including two, three and five-light casements on both floors, and a 15-pane ground-floor window. The right-hand bay projects forward of the main elevation. The W elevation faces onto the road and incorporates a mounting block, blocked ground-floor and first-floor openings and a glazed first-floor arrow-slit. The NE short wing contains a door and first-floor three-light window. To the N is a two-storey parallel range which has been divided into two dwellings. THE OLD WOODHOUSE at the E end has an L-shaped plan and faces onto the road. It has three bays,
with a central door flanked by bow windows and two dormer windows in the roof above. The N elevation of this range includes two C20 rear doors that lead into THE OLD WOODHOUSE. There is also a large C20 window that looks into the MANOR FARM COTTAGE at the W end of this range. This dwelling is entered through a door in the W gable end. Above is a C20 door within a former loft opening that is reached by a C20 external timber stairway. There are various rendered stacks, flues and window lights in the roof, including a large brick stack that rises from the roof valley between MANOR FARM COTTAGE and THE LONGHOUSE. To the N end of this complex is THE GRANARY, which is two storeys and has two bays. The main entrance is in the W elevation and there is a pair of dormer windows on either side of the pitched roof.

Historic England, 2017, Manor Farmhouse, Strete (List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest). SDV360077.

Historic England have received an application to amend the entry on the List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

The site was originally known as Manor Farm and it was one of three farms around which the settlement of Strete developed. The surviving historic fabric indicates the S range dates to at least C16/C17, with possible earlier origins. The original building appears to have been a cross-passage house with three or four rooms which has been subject to various phases of extensions, including the addition of a stair tower to the S at a later date. A kitchen range and
store loft was added to the NE, and an implement store and agricultural wing added to the NW end, circa late C18/early C19. Manor Farm appears on an 1816 map, with a parallel range to the rear and a rear cross wing. The footprint is similar on the 1840 Tithe map. During the Second World War all of Strete was evacuated due to nearby live ammunition manoeuvres being carried out by the Allied forces on the east Devon coast. After the end of the war the farm was sold and in the mid-C20 an outbuilding to the S was used as an abattoir, and a shop was inserted in the main building’s N wing. In the late C20 a series of detached outbuildings were converted into dwellings, and the farmhouse and its attached agricultural and kitchen range were subdivided into three dwellings; this included the raising of the end of the rear wing from one to two storeys. Subsequently the central range was subdivided again, creating a fourth separate dwelling.

Historic England, 2017, National Heritage List for England (National Heritage List for England). SDV359963.

House, formerly a farmhouse. 17th century or possibly earlier origins with later alterations including 20th century restoration. Local slate rubble with rendered front. Asbestos tile roof, gabled at left-hand end, hipped at right-hand end. Rendered left-hand end stack and axial stack and exposed stone rubble right-hand end stack. PLAN: Situated at right angles to road facing south-east. Long range, probably formerly 4 rooms but internal partitions have been removed to form at the left end one long room with a gable end stack, and at the right end a small room which, since it has a fireplace at both ends, must have formerly been 2 rooms. There is a doorway to the right of centre, probably to a passage between the 2 rooms. In front of the right-hand room there is a projecting bay and at the back a short wing attached to a long range of farm buildings which have been converted into houses. Behind the main range there is a parallel range of outbuildings also converted into houses. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Long asymmetrical 5-window range. The right-hand end projects. Mostly late C19 2 and 3 and 5-light casements with glazing bars, the 2 ground-floor right-hand windows are circa late C19 sashes of 16 and 6 panes. Doorway at centre with C19 studded softwood plank door with wrought-iron hinges and C20 glazed porch with slate roof. There is another doorway at the left-hand end of the front with a C20 glazed door. At the right-hand end on the road a mounting block against the end wall. To the right the short rear wing has a C20 glazed door with a chamfered wooden lintel. At the rear a parallel range, probably C19 outbuildings converted into separate house in C20. INTERIOR: Seen from outside only. Large left end room has rough joists and no main beam and the fireplace appears to have been rebuilt; probably originally 2 rooms. The lower right-hand room has large open fireplace in stack which probably backs onto a cross passage and has a high, chamfered wooden lintel. The lower end room also has a chamfered cross-beam and a small fireplace with a brick arch in the lower right-hand end wall.

Historic England, 2017, The Longhouse, Totnes Road, Strete (List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest). SDV363146.

Historic England, 2019, National Heritage List for England, 1325181 (National Heritage List for England). SDV362730.

The Longhouse
Summary
A C17 former cross-passage house, with possible earlier origins, refurbished in the late C20.
Reasons for Designation
The Longhouse, Strete, Devon, a C17 cross-passage house, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Date: it is a C17 house that retains a significant proportion of early fabric; * Architectural interest: the plan and decoration is highly characteristic of south-west vernacular building traditions; * Degree of alteration: the former cross-passage plan and room arrangement is still legible and the building retains several interesting internal features including a smoking chamber, first-floor stud-and-plank screen and monochrome scraffito decoration; * Group value: with various listed buildings in the centre of Strete, including Glen Cottage and the adjoining house, a mid-C17 building with probably earlier origins (Grade II).
History
The site was originally known as Manor Farm and it was one of three farms around which the settlement of Strete developed. The surviving historic fabric indicates the south range dates to the C17, with possible earlier origins. The original building appears to have been a cross-passage house with three or four rooms which has been subject to various phases of extensions, including the addition of a stair tower to the south at a later date. A kitchen range and store loft was added to the north-east, and an implement store and agricultural wing added to the north-west end, around the late C18/ early C19. Manor Farm appears on an 1816 map, with a parallel range to the rear and a rear cross wing. The footprint is similar on the 1840 Tithe map. During the Second World War all of Strete was evacuated due to nearby live ammunition manoeuvres being carried out by the Allied forces on the E Devon coast. After the end of the war the farm was sold. In the mid-C20 an outbuilding to the south was used as an abattoir. The attached north range and wing were subdivided into separate dwellings. The former C17 cross passage house was renamed The Longhouse.
Details
A C17 former cross-passage house, with possible earlier origins, refurbished in the late C20.
MATERIALS: a rubble-stone building with a rendered front, covered with asbestos-tile roofs. The windows are timber frames.
PLAN: a single-depth three/four-room, former cross-passage plan (some of the internal walls have been removed and replaced in the C20).
EXTERIOR: a two-storey building topped by a pitched roof with a hipped end to the east and gabled to the west. There is an off-centre brick stack over the roof ridge, and lateral stacks at either end. The principal (south) elevation is asymmetrical and has five bays. The main entrance is to the right-of-centre, with a C19 studded plank door with wrought-iron hinges within a C20 pitch-roof porch. Most of the windows are late C19, including two, three and five-light casements on both floors, and a 15-pane ground-floor window. The right-hand bay projects forward of the main elevation. The west elevation faces onto the road and incorporates a mounting block, blocked ground-floor and first-floor openings and a glazed first-floor arrow-slit. The north-east short wing contains a door and first-floor three-light window.
INTERIOR: the current main entrance hall marks the former cross passage and the blocked rear doorway is discernible in the north wall. To the west of the hall is a rubble-stone internal wall with a pointed-arched opening. There are chamfered-and-stopped ceiling beams in the principal ground-floor rooms, and several internal timber plank doors with strap hinges, of various dates. In the centre of the house, facing into the east-end room, is a large fireplace with a timber bressumer and two cloam (bread) ovens. To the rear of the fireplace is a separate smoke chamber with a conical roof, and two pointed-arched doors, one leading through to the passage and the other (blocked) in the north wall. There are further later fireplaces at either end of the building. There are two timber dogleg staircases, one in the centre of the building, the other in the east-end room. The first floor contains a stone fireplace at the east end decorated with C17 monochrome patterned sgraffito plaster, and an around C17 stud-and-plank screen in the west-end room. This range is topped by a late C17/ early C18 collared timber-pegged roof. The whole building was refurbished in the late C20 and some of the partitions and joinery dates to this phase.
Date first listed: 25th March 1991. Date of most recent amendment: 4th August 2017

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