Pigsty About 30 Metres South East of Sweaton Farmhouse
PIGSTY ABOUT 30 METRES SOUTH EAST OF SWEATON FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242527
- Date first listed:
- 03-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Pigsty About 30 Metres South East of Sweaton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- PIGSTY ABOUT 30 METRES SOUTH EAST OF SWEATON FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242527
- Date first listed:
- 03-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Pigsty About 30 Metres South East of Sweaton Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- PIGSTY ABOUT 30 METRES SOUTH EAST OF SWEATON FARMHOUSE
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.
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:
- PIGSTY ABOUT 30 METRES SOUTH EAST OF SWEATON 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 70065 73630
Details
WIDECOMBE-IN- PONSWORTHY SX 77 SW THE-MOOR 6/250 Pigsty about 30 metres south- east of Sweaton Farmhouse
GV II
Pigsty. Probably early C19. Granite rubble with slated roof. Small building about 7 metres long and 4 metres wide, probably divided into 2 compartments originally. 1 storey, formerly lofted. East gable wall has ventilation slit with loft doorway above, the latter now boarded up. North wall has a small square opening with outer edge of a granite feeding trough as its base; iron hinges and catch for a door remain. To right of it is a ventilation slit. Another opening with feeding trough in west gable-wall. South wall has an altered doorway with some concrete block in the upper part; it seems originally to have consisted of a pair of doors flanked and divided by short granite posts. Interior: has well-made housings for former loft floor-beams. Roof has 2 trusses, apparently original, with principal rafters halved at the apex and nailed; collars nailed to their faces.
Listing NGR: SX7006573630
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441958
- 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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