Halshanger Farmhouse and Attached Courtyard of Buildings With Central Dung Pit
HALSHANGER FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED COURTYARD OF BUILDINGS WITH CENTRAL DUNG PIT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282908
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Halshanger Farmhouse and Attached Courtyard of Buildings With Central Dung Pit
- Statutory Address:
- HALSHANGER FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED COURTYARD OF BUILDINGS WITH CENTRAL DUNG PIT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282908
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Halshanger Farmhouse and Attached Courtyard of Buildings With Central Dung Pit
- Statutory Address 1:
- HALSHANGER FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED COURTYARD OF BUILDINGS WITH CENTRAL DUNG PIT
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:
- HALSHANGER FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED COURTYARD OF BUILDINGS WITH CENTRAL DUNG PIT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Teignbridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashburton
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 75734 73374
Details
ASHBURTON
SX77SE HALSHANGER 849-1/2/238 Halshanger Farmhouse and attached courtyard of buildings with central dung pit
II
Farmhouse and attached buildings, formerly the home farmstead of Halshanger Manor (not listed), which lies 50m to east. Built between 1840 and 1887. Stone rubble with detail in dressed granite. Slated roofs. Red-brick chimneys. House and buildings enclose a square cobbled courtyard with access through a covered gateway on N side. House, architecturally almost indistinguishable from the rest, in SE corner. Buildings have shippons and stable in ground storey; cartshed in NE corner, entered from outside. Lofts above; bank barn with 2 threshing-floors on W side. In centre a very large round dungpit. 2 storeys. Openings mostly have segmental arches with raised keystones. Some rusticated detail, including surrounds of archways to covered gateway and cartshed entrance. Dungpit enclosed by low stone-rubble wall with coping of roughly-squared granite blocks. Iron water-wheel at south end of barn. Adjoining the buildings on west is the former mowhay or rickyard complete with granite staddle-stones (now minus their mushroom tops). Interior: house not inspected. Some of shippons have cobbled floors and red-brick feeding troughs. Some machinery associated with water-wheel. (Ashburton Tithe Map 1840: 1887-: OS 25 INCH).
Listing NGR: SX7573473374
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 375985
- 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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