Barn and Bakehouse Approximately 6 Metres South-east of Ensworthy
BARN AND BAKEHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 6 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF ENSWORTHY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147629
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Barn and Bakehouse Approximately 6 Metres South-east of Ensworthy
- Statutory Address:
- BARN AND BAKEHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 6 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF ENSWORTHY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147629
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Barn and Bakehouse Approximately 6 Metres South-east of Ensworthy
- Statutory Address 1:
- BARN AND BAKEHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 6 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF ENSWORTHY
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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:
- BARN AND BAKEHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 6 METRES SOUTH-EAST OF ENSWORTHY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Gidleigh
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX6602389471
Details
SX 68 NE GIDLEIGH
3/256 Barn and bakehouse approximately
- 6 metres south-east of Ensworthy
GV II
Barn and bakehouse. Early-mid C17. Granite stone rubble including a proportion of
roughly-squared blocks laid to rough course and built on large boulder footings and
with large dressed quoins; corrugated iron roof (formerly thatch).
Plan: the building faces south-east and is built down the hillslope. The main part,
to right, is a threshing barn with large opposing nearly full height doorways onto
the threshing floor. It is open to the roof. At the uphill left end there is a 1-
room plan bakehouse with an axial stack backing onto the barn. This was originally
2 storeys but the floor has now collapsed.
Exterior: the cottage section has a 2-window front of open embrasures and the first
floor one has been enlarged to provide a hay loading hatch. The doorway to right of
the ground floor window has a plain solid frame and contains an old plank door. A
sloping buttress to right marks the division between the bakehouse and barn. The
large barn doorway appears to have been heightened a short distance since the
monolithic granite jambs are not quite full height. There is a row of pigeon holes
high in the wall at the right end. Roof is gable-ended. The right gable-end wall
includes a hayloft loading hatch and a series of ventilation slits.
Interior: the bakehouse fireplace is built of granite with a soffit-chamfered and
step-stopped oak lintel. It includes a massive granite oven under the granite stops
of the newel stair. The first floor structure has collapsed but a soffit-chamfered
and step-stopped half beam survives against the end wall. There is a blind rubble
crosswall between barn and bakehouse. 2-bay roof to bakehouse and 5 bays to barn,
all A-frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars to the barn section only.
Detached bakehouses such as this are very rare and of great interest to students of
vernacular architecture. It is even more unusual for one to be associated with a
threshing barn.
Listing NGR: SX6602389471
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 94701
- 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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