OUTBUILDING ABOUT 20 METRES SOUTH EAST OF ROWBROOK FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1242050
Date first listed:: 03-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: OUTBUILDING ABOUT 20 METRES SOUTH EAST OF ROWBROOK FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: OUTBUILDING ABOUT 20 METRES SOUTH EAST OF ROWBROOK FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1242050
Date first listed:: 03-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: OUTBUILDING ABOUT 20 METRES SOUTH EAST OF ROWBROOK FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: OUTBUILDING ABOUT 20 METRES SOUTH EAST OF ROWBROOK 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:: OUTBUILDING ABOUT 20 METRES SOUTH EAST OF ROWBROOK 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 68431 72498

Details

WIDECOMBE-IN- SX 67 SE THE-MOOR 5/198 Outbuilding about 20 metres - south-east of Rowbrook Farmhouse - II

Outbuilding, formerly a longhouse. C17 or earlier, with added lean-to. Granite rubble with massive, roughly-dressed quoins. Slated roof. No chimneys, or evidence of where one might have been. Plan consists of 2 small domestic rooms to left of a cross-passage (which has no rear doorway) and a shippon to right. The latter is separated from the passage by a stone wall with massive stones at its base; the wall is not bonded to either of the outer walls and never seems to have contained a doorway. Just next to it in the rear wall, on the shippon side, is a rounded recess that may have contained a staircase. To the right of this is a blocked doorway, opposite to the present front doorway into the shippon and it seems quite possible that the original through-passage was here, absorbed into the shippon at some later date along with part of the hall. 2 storeys. 2-window front to house part; none of the windows contain frames or glazing, and all are boarded up. The window left of the cross-passage door has a chamfered granite lintel with run-out stops, but it does not fit the opening, even allowing for the right-hand side having been blocked in. Doorway to left of it, into former inner room, has a similar lintel which fits rather better. Doorway into cross-passage has an old granite porch roofed with a sheet of corrugated iron. Shippon doorway, to right, has a plain wood lintel. To right of this an added lean-to, used latterly as a stable. In the left-hand gable- wall the house part has a small, hollow-moulded granite window in the ground storey; it originally had a mullion in the centre, and in each jamb is a hole for a horizontal bar. In the upper storey is a slit window (now blocked), a remarkable feature for one of the main walls of a house. At the back the ground appears to have been built up to second-storey level, probably when the upper part of the building was converted into a storage loft. The wall contains several old loft doors, but there is also a slit window, possibly related to a former staircase. In the right-hand gable-wall the shippon has 3 ventilation slits at ground-storey level. Interior has few features. There is a stone wall containing a blocked doorway between the former inner room and hall. The latter has a chamfered upper-floor beam with plain joists; the beam has rotted at either end and is supported by inserted corbels. Below the beam, a very flimsy partition forms the left-hand side of the cross-passage; the front door must originally have opened straight into the hall. There is a drain running the full length of the shippon and a line of stones along the rear wall, defining a feeding trough. The building is known to have been used as the farmhouse until the late C19, and continued as a dwelling well into C20. Sources: information from the present owner and Miss E Gawne.

Listing NGR: SX6843172498

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Legacy System number:: 441394
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.