BITTLEFORD FARMHOUSE, INCLUDING SHIPPON AT LEFT HAND END

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1241385
Date first listed:: 23-Aug-1955
List Entry Name:: BITTLEFORD FARMHOUSE, INCLUDING SHIPPON AT LEFT HAND END
Statutory Address:: BITTLEFORD FARMHOUSE, INCLUDING SHIPPON AT LEFT HAND END

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1241385
Date first listed:: 23-Aug-1955
List Entry Name:: BITTLEFORD FARMHOUSE, INCLUDING SHIPPON AT LEFT HAND END
Statutory Address 1:: BITTLEFORD FARMHOUSE, INCLUDING SHIPPON AT LEFT HAND END

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BITTLEFORD FARMHOUSE, INCLUDING SHIPPON AT LEFT HAND END

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: Teignbridge (District Authority)
Parish:: Widecombe in the Moor
National Park:: DARTMOOR
National Grid Reference:: SX 70563 74898

Details

SX 77 SW WIDECOMBE-IN- 6/133 THE-MOOR Bittleford Farmhouse, including 23.8.55 shippon at left-hand end

GV II

Farmhouse, possibly a former longhouse. Probably C17 or earlier; porch added 1705. Shippon end rebuilt late C19 or early C20. Granite rubble; house-part covered with roughcast. House covered with asbestos slates, shippon with real slates. 2 large chimneystacks on ridge covered with roughcast; left-hand stack (probably backing on to through-passage) with stone weatherings. Plan seems to have 4 domestic rooms to right of through-passage. 2 storeys. 4-window front; all windows have C20 plastic casements, except for C19 wood casement in upper storey of porch. Ground storey of porch has moulded, round-arched granite doorway with 1705 RT carved in the spandrels. Shippon to left is L-shaped; openings have segmental arches with well- cut voussoirs. Loft door with gabled roof rising above eaves-line. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SX7056374898

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Legacy System number:: 440425
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.