Description

FORTY-SEVENTH LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST
AS COMPILED UNDER SECTION 54 OF THE THE TOWN AND COUNTRY PLANNING ACT 1971

SX 78 NW CHAGFORD

4/1 Batworthy Farmhouse
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GV II

Farmhouse. Late C17 - early C18. Plastered granite stone rubble; granite stacks, 1
with a granite ashlar chimney shaft; asbestos slate roof (formerly thatch).
Plan: 3-room plan house facing east. Left (south) end kitchen stack and axial stack
serving the right (north) end parlour. Unheated room between was probably a dairy
and the end rooms are connected by a front corridor past it. 2 storeys.
Exterior: irregular 5-window front, all C20 casements with glazing bars except first
floor right which is C19 and contains rectangular panes of leaded glass. Present
doorway at left end contains a C20 door. The window right of centre is probably
blocking the original door.
Roof is gable-ended to left and half-hipped to right.
Interior has plain carpentry detail where exposed but most is covered by C19 and C20
plaster.

Listing NGR: SX7143485244

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26400090

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Recommended Books

• 
  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)