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UNOCCUPIED HOUSE IMMEDIATELY TO SOUTH-EAST OF HIGHER DITTISHAM FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1326416
Date first listed:: 28-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: UNOCCUPIED HOUSE IMMEDIATELY TO SOUTH-EAST OF HIGHER DITTISHAM FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: UNOCCUPIED HOUSE IMMEDIATELY TO SOUTH-EAST OF HIGHER DITTISHAM FARMHOUSE

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Date:: 2001-09-17
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1326416
Date first listed:: 28-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: UNOCCUPIED HOUSE IMMEDIATELY TO SOUTH-EAST OF HIGHER DITTISHAM FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: UNOCCUPIED HOUSE IMMEDIATELY TO SOUTH-EAST OF HIGHER DITTISHAM 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:: UNOCCUPIED HOUSE IMMEDIATELY TO SOUTH-EAST OF HIGHER DITTISHAM FARMHOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: West Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Walkhampton
National Park:: DARTMOOR
National Grid Reference:: SX 53556 70471

Details

WALKHAMPTON SX 57 SW 13/140 Unoccupied house immediately to - south-east of Higher Dittisham Farmhouse - II

Unoccupied house, formerly longhouse, now in use as store and stabling. Circa late C16 or early C17 with addition of 1663 and alterations in C20. Stone rubble walls. Gable-ended corrugated iron roof. Plan: The building began as a relatively modest longhouse with shippon at the lower, right-hand end, which had a through-passage at its higher end divided only by a light partition. To the left of the passage was a small hall with an axial fireplace backing onto passage. Beyond this was a small unheated inner room and at the rear, overlapping the 2 rooms, was a newel stair projection. In 1663 a parlour wing was built projecting from the higher end and involving a partial rebuild of the inner room. This wing is now gutted internally but preserves its original external door giving independent access. The position of the surviving fireplace and windows suggests an arrangement on the ground floor of a lobby entrance with one or possibly 2 service rooms to the left and the parlour to the right heated by an axial fireplace in the wall adjoining the hall. There was also a gable end fireplace on the 1st floor of the wing. At this stage the hall was probably relegated to kitchen status. The house was probably abondoned in the later C19 and substantial changes were made to it throughout the C20. The shippon was reduced in height, and divided into loose boxes with the passage partition removed and doors blocked; the doorway from hall to passage was also blocked and the original internal partitions in the wing removed. Exterior: 2 storeys. L-shaped with larger range sloping downhill consisting of hall and shippon which is now 1 storey and has 2 stable doors. The original drain-hole survives in its lower gable end. At the higher, left-hand end, of its front wall the blocked passage doorway can be seen. A C20 plank door has been inserted into the front of the hall at the left end of the main range with a loading doorway above. The wing projects at the left-hand end with a 4-centred chamfered granite doorway on the inner face. To its left is the hollow-chamfered granite frame of a 2-light mullion window whose central mullion has been removed. There is evidence of a similar window on the ground floor of the gable end. To the left of the arched doorway, on the 1st floor is a tall inserted C20 window opening and to its right is a granite datestone inscribed "1663 RPM". Interior: Hall fireplace has plain granite lintel and unchamfered granite jambs. Oven in right-hand side. At the higher end of the hall is a chamfered half beam set into the wall. Stone newel stairs at rear of hall. The former parlour preserves its blocked fireplace with granite jambs and ovolo-moulded wooden lintel which has hollow-stepped and notched stops. The 1st floor fireplace in the wing has a chamfered wooden lintel and chamfered granite jambs. Despite recent alterations the main fabric of this house survives with a number of features from both building phases; it represents an interesting example of a modest parlour wing house. Source: Devon Farmhouses III - S. R. Jones : Trans. Devonshire Assoc 1971

Listing NGR: SX5355670471

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Legacy System number:: 92870
Legacy System:: LBS

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'Transactions of the Devonshire Association' in Transactions of the Devonshire Association, (1971)

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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.