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GILLHOUSE FARMHOUSE INCLUDING COB WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS ADJOINING TO NORTH WEST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1163305
Date first listed:: 15-Aug-1965
List Entry Name:: GILLHOUSE FARMHOUSE INCLUDING COB WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS ADJOINING TO NORTH WEST
Statutory Address:: GILLHOUSE FARMHOUSE INCLUDING COB WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS ADJOINING TO NORTH WEST

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1163305
Date first listed:: 15-Aug-1965
Date of most recent amendment:: 25-Aug-1965
List Entry Name:: GILLHOUSE FARMHOUSE INCLUDING COB WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS ADJOINING TO NORTH WEST
Statutory Address 1:: GILLHOUSE FARMHOUSE INCLUDING COB WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS ADJOINING TO NORTH WEST

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: GILLHOUSE FARMHOUSE INCLUDING COB WALLS AND OUTBUILDINGS ADJOINING TO NORTH WEST

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Zeal Monachorum
National Grid Reference:: SS 71327 03638

Details

ZEAL MONACHORUM SS 70 SW 4/63 Gillhouse Farmhouse including cob walls and 26.8.65 outbuilding adjoining to north- west - II

Farmhouse. Late C16 - early C17, possibly earlier core; rebuild and enlarged in late C17. Plastered cob on rubble footings; stone rubble stacks topped with C20 brick; thatch roof. House plan is derived from a 3-room-and-through-passage plan house facing south-east with the former inner room at the right (north-eastern) end. In the late C17 the house was remodelled in 1 or 2 stages. A fourth room was added onto the former servaice (south-western) end. The former inner room was probably extended and both hall and inner room were brought forward an extra bay. At the same time a 2-storey porch was put on the front and built large enough to incorporate a stair (now dismantled). The corridor along the back of the hall is also probably contemporary. The present stairs are C19 and in that corridor. The former inner room (now a kitchen) has an end stack; the hall has an axial stack backing onto the passage; the former service room is unheated; and the service end extension room has a projecting end stack. 2 storeys throughout. Balanced nearly-symmetrical 2:1:2 window front of late C19 - early C20 3-light casements with glazing bars. The large gabled porch contains a plain nearly round- headed outer arch and the front door behind is late C19; panelled and part-glazed. The main roof is gable-ended. The projecting left end stack of neatly-squared stone blocks with ashlar weathered offsets. The rear wall includes a number of late C17 oak window frames, all with flat-faced mullions and relatively broad internal ogee mouldings. There are two 3-light windows to the former service room and extension (the latter is blocked), 2 more to the chambers above (one contains rectangular panes of leaded glass) and another 2-light window to left of these. Interior: the internal crosswalls are of cob. The former inner room (now the kitchen) has late C17 features; the crossbeam is soffit-chamfered with runout stops and the large fireplace is blocked. The core of the hall is late C16 - early C17. The fireplace is built of stone rubble with soffit-chamfered and pyramid-stopped oak lintel. The rear of the 2 axial beams is contemporary and similarly finished against the chimney breast. At the other end another section of oak has been scarfed on and a massive iron bolt sticks up in the first floor corridor above. The beam towards the front has a plain soffit chamfer, dating from the late C17 widening of the hall. The passage and 2 lower rooms have no exposed carpentry. The roof is wholly C17 although some earlier smoke-blackened timbers are reused. The earliest truss over the lower side of the passage is an A-frame with a pegged dovetail lap-jointed collar; it is late C16 - early C17. All the other trusses are late C17 A-frames with simple pegged lap-jointed collars. The trusses over the hall have unusual collars which on the rear side are shaped to follow the principal down nearly 0.5m and are fixed by a series of pegs. At the rear a high cob wall on rubble footings and with thatch coping encloses a courtyard. On each side later stones have been built with lean-to roofs.

Listing NGR: SS7132703638

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Legacy System number:: 95614
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.