Dunnabridge Pound Farmhouse
DUNNABRIDGE POUND FARMHOUSE, PL20 6SA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105451
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Dunnabridge Pound Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- DUNNABRIDGE POUND FARMHOUSE, PL20 6SA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105451
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Dunnabridge Pound Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- DUNNABRIDGE POUND FARMHOUSE, PL20 6SA
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:
- DUNNABRIDGE POUND FARMHOUSE, PL20 6SA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dartmoor Forest
- National Park:
- Dartmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SX6450374645
Details
SX 67 SW
15/5
LYDFORD,
Dunnabridge Pound Farmhouse
GV
II
Farmhouse. Circa late C16/early C17 possibly with earlier origins. C19 addition.
Granite rubble walls incorporating some very large blocks. Gable ended slate roof
in catslide over outshut at rear. 2 gable end stacks of roughly dressed granite
blocks with dripstones, the right-hand are projects and has a granite cap.
PLAN: originally likely to have been a longhouse whose shippon at left-hand
(downhill) end has been demolished and the through passage reduced to a lean-to.
Hall fireplace backs onto passage with newel stairs to its rear, inner room heated
by gable end fireplace. Outshut added along rear wall in C19.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front of late C20 2-light casements.
The stonework is continuous into a leanto against the left-hand gable end which has
a C20 plank door at the front. Outshut along rear wall almost to right-hand end.
INTERIOR: Hall fireplace has massive granite lintel, roughly dressed, with a
monolithic granite jamb to the left. Stone bread oven in right-hand side which fits
in space below adjoining stone newel stairs. Heavy wany chamfered cross beam.
Inner room fireplace partly filled in, also has rough granite lintel.
Dunnabridge was one of the 17 Ancient Tenements of the Forest of Dartmoor first
mentioned in Documents in 1305.
This building forms part of a traditional and unspoilt small moorland farm group.
Listing NGR: SX6450374645
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 92739
- 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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