Cockingford Farmhouse including shippon at south-west end

Cockingford Farmhouse including shippon at south-west end, TQ13 7TG

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1242328
Date first listed:
23-Aug-1955
List Entry Name:
Cockingford Farmhouse including shippon at south-west end
Statutory Address:
Cockingford Farmhouse including shippon at south-west end, TQ13 7TG

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1242328
Date first listed:
23-Aug-1955
Date of most recent amendment:
03-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:
Cockingford Farmhouse including shippon at south-west end
Statutory Address 1:
Cockingford Farmhouse including shippon at south-west end, TQ13 7TG

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
Cockingford Farmhouse including shippon at south-west end, TQ13 7TG

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 71691 75088

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22 November 2022 to correct a typo in the name and address

SX 77 NW
2/232

COCKINGFORD
WIDECOMBE-IN-THE-MOOR
Cockingford Farmhouse including shippon at south-west end

(Formerly listed as Cockingford Mill and Millhouse)

23.8.55

II

Farmhouse, formerly a mill and mill house. Probably late C17 or C18, with additions. Granite rubble. Slated roof. Rendered chimneystack on left-hand gable; granite ashlar stack on ridge, off-centre to left. Single-depth plan. two storeys with single-storey lean-tos at front and rear. Three windows wide; C20 wood casements. Ground storey has two old plank doors, one between the two windows, the other at right-hand end. At extreme right-hand end is a pent-roofed projection.

At left-hand end, set back a little, is a shippon with loft over. This has three doorways in ground storey, the left-hand two with granite slabs as lintels, the right-hand one wider with a shallow segmental arch having well-cut voussoirs. In centre of upper storey is an old plank loft door with wrought-iron strap-hinges. Against right-hand gable-wall is an iron water-wheel with wooden spokes and slats; it is moulded with the inscription WILLCOCKS & SON, BUCKFASTLEIGH. The sluice survives, with granite rubble retaining wall, and part of the leat running north-east across the hillside.

The house has group value with Cockingford Bridge and Cockingford Cottage, which are listed in the parish of Buckland-in-the-Moor.

Listing NGR: SX7169175088

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
441692
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.

Ordnance survey map of Cockingford Farmhouse including shippon at south-west end

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