HATCHWELL FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1241704
Date first listed:: 03-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: HATCHWELL FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: HATCHWELL FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1241704
Date first listed:: 03-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: HATCHWELL FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: HATCHWELL FARMHOUSE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: HATCHWELL FARMHOUSE

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 70241 77476

Details

WIDECOMBE-IN- SX 77 NW THE-MOOR 2/171 Hatchwell Farmhouse -

- II

House, formerly a longhouse. C16 or possibly earlier, probably with wing added in late C16 or early C17; added lean-to on west side of former shippon. Roughcast solid walls, probably of stone; the north gable-wall is of exposed granite rubble. Asbestos-slated roofs, the shippon roof lower than that of the house part. On the centre of ridge of main range, at right-hand end of house part, a well-made granite chimneystack with integral thatch-weatherings and tapered top; on the gable-wall below it is a series of drip-stones, protecting the shippon roof. In the gable-wall of wing is a projecting stack with offsets, thatch-weatherings and tapered top, the whole covered with roughcast. Plan is the usual longhouse one : hall and inner room to left, shippon (now a kitchen) to right. Front door opens into upper end of former shippon with the back of the hall stack on the left-hand side; there was formerly a cross-passage, but the partition with former shippon has gone. Shippon formerly had a separate entrance. At right-angles to the rear wall of the main range, at the junction of hall and shippon, is a further room (probably designed as a parlour) with gable-fireplace. 2 storeys; lean-to single-storeyed. Main (west) front is 2 windows wide; all windows are C20. The shippon end, clearly of a different build, is set back slightly; it has no upstairs windows this side. The former shippon door, immediately to the right of the main door, has been blocked and a window inserted. Interior: hall fireplace has a heavy, chamfered granite lintel supported at the left-hand end by a well-cut, rounded corbel; the right-hand side has been rebuilt, probably to insert an oven which itself has now been filled in. Above the lintel, visible in the room above, is a good relieving arch, the space between it and the lintel filled with rubble masonry. The back of the fireplace towards the shippon is of granite ashlar, although it lacks the plinth and cornice often found in Dartmoor houses. The fireplace is of remarkable quality for a longhouse, especially one as small as this; corbelled fireplaces are extremely rare in Devon farmhouses of any kind. Upper-floor beam of hall is chamfered with step-stops. Next to the stack, at the junction with the wing, is an open, winding stone staircase built up against the stone wall with the shippon; the wall protrudes at an awkward angle into the shippon, as if it were a later insertion. At the upper end of the hall a stone wall (rising only the height of the ground storey) divides off the narrow inner room. Towards the hall this wall contains a rectangular recess halfway up, and there is a similar feature in the gable-wall of the inner room. The wing room has a chamfered upper-floor beam with worn bar-stops. The gable-fireplace has granite jambs and lightly-chamfered granite lintel. To right of it is a recess like those in the hall and inner room. Roof-spaces not inspected, but trusses have plain, old feet rising from the wall-tops. The house is reputed to have deeds back to C17, now in possession of the former owner at Dockwell Farm, Widecombe. The shippon was used for housing calves as recently as the early 1960s. Sources: information from the present owners, and from Mr and Mrs Brown of Dunstone Manor, who lived at Hatchwell while it was still a working farm.

Listing NGR: SX7024177476

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Legacy System number:: 440888
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.