Description

NORTH BOVEY
SX 78 SW
4/204 Luckdon Farmhouse
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GV II

Farmhouse, originally a longhouse. C16 with C17 alterations, comprehensively
modernised in early C20. Rendered granite rubble walls. Wood shingle roof. Swept
up over first floor windows, gabled to right higher end, hipped to lower end. 4
rendered stacks, one gable, 2 axial and a lateral stack to front of lower end,
slightly projecting.
Originally longhouse plan of shippon, through passage, hall and inner room.
Shippon converted in C17 to domestic accommodation of 2 rooms at lower side of
passage, both heated. Rear outshut added to higher end in C19/C20. The roof line
and windows date from early C20 modernisation.
2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front of 2- and 3-light early C20 casements with
leaded panes of diamond pattern on ground floor. Central granite 4-centred arched
doorway with hollow chamfer and worn stops. At lower gable end where the ground
falls away sharply is central drain opening at ground level.
Interior inaccessible but seen to have remains of plank and muntin screen at lower
side of passage from which planks had been removed. Hall has granite framed
fireplace. There are likely to be other early features surviving inside, possible
including the roof structure.

Listing NGR: SX7459782726

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26618891

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Recommended Books

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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)