Townstal Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 October 1972. A C17 Former farmhouse, guesthouse. 3 related planning applications.
Townstal Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- knotted-corner-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 October 1972
- Type
- Former farmhouse, guesthouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
DARTMOUTH
SX8651 TOWNSTAL ROAD, Townstal 673-1/5/294 (South West side) 23/10/72 Townstal Farmhouse
GV II
Former farmhouse, now a guesthouse. C17 or earlier core, much altered in the C19 and C20, with C20 extensions. Painted stone rubble; stone rubble end and rear lateral stacks have chimneyshafts with plastered brick tops; asbestos slate roof, probably thatch originally. PLAN: L-plan includes 3-room-and-through-passage plan to main block; former service wing projects forward at right-angles from the left (inner room) end; integral outshut to rear right. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; late C18/early C19 regular 4-window front. Front doorway a little right of centre (with straight join immediately left) contains a top-glazed 6-panel door behind a gabled stone porch with round-headed outer arch. Flanking windows have low segmental brick arches over pairs of 12-pane sashes and, to left, a 16-pane sash. First-floor 12-pane sashes. Plain eaves to gable-ended roof. Gabled front block contains a C20 door in an older frame under a C20 hood next to the main block. Its windows are casements with glazing bars except for the two 12-pane sashes in the outer side wall. Rear C20 extensions. INTERIOR: Much altered. No early carpentry is exposed. Fireplaces have been exposed and mended, the most complete are those in the 2 right-hand rooms, both with side ovens. Roof not inspected.
Listing NGR: SX8698351550
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