Middle Weeke Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1985. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Middle Weeke Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- winter-column-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Middle Weeke Farmhouse is a farmhouse with a core dating from the 16th century and improvements made in the 17th century. It was renovated around 1973. The building features plastered cob on rubble footings, with rubble stacks topped by 20th-century brick, and a concrete interlocking tile roof that was formerly thatched. The house has an altered three-room-and-through-passage plan and faces southeast, with a service room at the southwest end. It has end stacks, although the inner room stack is disused, and an axial hall stack that backs onto the former passage. There are 20th-century single-storey rear outshots. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has an irregular four-window front, with large pane sashes from the late 19th and 20th centuries. To the left of centre, there is a 20th-century gable-roofed porch made of concrete pantiles, flanked by tripartite sashes. The roof is gable-ended.
The interior was modernised around 1973, but much of the original fabric likely remains behind 19th and 20th-century plaster. The fireplaces are blocked, the ceiling level in the service room has been raised with a new crossbeam, and the partition between the hall and inner room was removed around 1973. A mid-17th-century crossbeam in the hall features elaborate moulding with finely detailed scroll stops and inscribed floral motifs. The roof is not accessible, and the lower parts of the trusses are boxed in, giving the impression of a 17th-century or later roof. However, torchlight through a small hole in the first-floor ceiling reveals some smoke-blackened timbers.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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