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Starr's Farmhouse

A Grade II Listed Building in Sowton, Devon

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.7266 / 50°43'35"N

Longitude: -3.449 / 3°26'56"W

OS Eastings: 297826

OS Northings: 92892

OS Grid: SX978928

Mapcode National: GBR P3.0Q43

Mapcode Global: FRA 37N5.458

Plus Code: 9C2RPHG2+MC

Entry Name: Starr's Farmhouse

Listing Date: 19 March 1987

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1333999

English Heritage Legacy ID: 86181

ID on this website: 101333999

Location: Sowton, East Devon, EX5

County: Devon

District: East Devon

Civil Parish: Sowton

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

Church of England Parish: Sowton St Michael and All Angels

Church of England Diocese: Exeter

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Description


SOWTON SOWTON LANE (east side)
SX 99 SE
1/45 Starr's Farmhouse
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GV II

Farmhouse. Early to mid C17 with later alterations. Plastered cob and Heavitree
stone, with a brick outshut; gabled-end thatched roof. 2-room, through-passage
plan house, the hall to the left, and the parlour to the right of the passage, both heated by external end stacks; unheated room to rear of parlour, probably originally a dairy; later brick outshut to rear of hall comprising 2 service rooms. 2 storeys.
Front: almost symmetrical 3-window range; one 3-light and two 4-light casement
windows to first floor; one 4-light casement window to either side of doorway
which has a segmental arch. Brick surrounds and arches to all windows.
Left-hand side: 2-light casement to first floor; C20 window to outshut, the
slated roof of which almost reaches the level of the eaves of the main range.
Right-hand end: the wing (which is also thatched) with a 3-light casement window
to both floors.
Interior: only the hall was inspected; those features noted Dr Alcock are still
in situ, namely the 3 chamfered ceiling beams, fireplace lintel, and the post
between the doors to the 2 service rooms, and the lintel across them both (which
confirms the existence of a C17 service area here before the outshut was rebuilt in brick). 2 ovolo moulded ceiling beams to parlour with complex stops; 2 jointed crucks to roof, one towards the ends of each of the principal rooms. N W Alcock's, 'Houses in an East Devon Parish', Trans. Devon Assoc., 94 (1962), pp. 208-9., p1.10; figs. 12 and 15, the latter figure giving the section of the stops and mouldings.


Listing NGR: SX9782692891

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