Whiddon Park Deer Park Wall
WHIDDON PARK DEER PARK WALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1146648
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Whiddon Park Deer Park Wall
- Statutory Address:
- WHIDDON PARK DEER PARK WALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1146648
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Whiddon Park Deer Park Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHIDDON PARK DEER PARK WALL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WHIDDON PARK DEER PARK WALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Moretonhampstead
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX7272789341
Details
MORETONHAMPSTEAD
SX 78 NW
1/71A Whiddon Park Deer
Park Wall
II*
Walls of deer park. Probably a medieval deer park, the walls may be medieval as
well. Granite rubble, carefully built using large pieces of granite. The massive
wall is very thick and stands up to 3 metres high in places. It is intact and there
is a ditch on the inside of the wall. It encloses a deer park originally belonging
to Whiddonpark House (qv) in Chagford parish where a section of the wall is
separately listed:- 'Whiddon Park Deer Park Wall between SX 723889 and SX 722894'
(qv). Whiddonpark House is a large late C16 to early C17 houlse and seat of the
Whiddon family. The estate was bought by the Drewe family who built Castle Drogo
(qv) in Drewsteignton parish.
Listing NGR: SX7272789341
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 85003
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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