North Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 1988. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
North Hall Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- mired-finial-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 February 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
North Hall Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 16th century, with alterations made in the 17th century and extensions added in the 19th and 20th centuries. It features rendered cob walls and a hipped thatch roof, along with three brick stacks—one at each gable end (the right-hand one is rendered) and one axial stack. The original layout was a three-room and through passage plan, with a hall that was open to the roof and had a central hearth. Although the passage no longer exists, the lower end of the house is likely to be on the right. The insertion of the three stacks and flooring probably occurred in the early to mid-17th century, with the hall stack positioned at the higher end of the hall. The rear of the house has 19th and 20th-century outshuts, and in the 20th century, stairs were added in the likely location of the former passage.
The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical front featuring four windows, all of which are 20th-century casements. There are two 20th-century gabled porches, one at each end, each with part-glazed doors. The rear wall has outshuts.
Inside, the left-hand room has a substantial cross beam with a narrow chamfer, and its fireplace features an ogee stopped chamfered wooden lintel. The hall fireplace has a chamfered wooden lintel with straight cut stops, resting on a curved wooden corbel at the right-hand end, while the left-hand end has been built under in brick. The fireplace in the right-hand room also has a chamfered wooden lintel with ogee stops. The roof structure on the first floor shows trusses that appear to be straight principals, with two exposed lower down where they sharply crank into the wall and extend down it. The truss over the hall, along with the purlins and common rafters, is smoke-blackened, and the truss is morticed at the apex with threaded purlins, with no collar visible.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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