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Summary

A single storey, rectangular gable-ended stone-built barn with a modern roof. Cartographic evidence suggests that it may have originated as a lodge at the entrance to a driveway to Watermouth Castle and that it formerly had a more ornate plan.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• LODGE (Built, XVII to XIX - 1601 AD (Between) to 1900 AD (Between))
• BARN (XIX to Late 20th Century - 1801 AD (Between) to 2000 AD (Between))

Full description

Devon County Council, 1838-1848, Tithe Mosaic, approximately 1838-1848 (Cartographic). SDV349431.

Building depicted as a circular structure with two rectangular wings either side. Located at the very southern end of a long curving driveway to Watermouth Castle.

Ordnance Survey, 1880-1899, First Edition Ordnance 25 inch map (Cartographic). SDV336179.

Marked as Slew. Shown as a rectangular building at the southern end of Lodge Plantation. The driveway/trackway terminates at the building, the section onto the road visible on the Tithe Map is not shown.

Ordnance Survey, 1904 - 1906, Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map (Cartographic). SDV325644.

Rectangular building shown, marked as Slew.

Collings, A. G. + Manning, P. T. + Valentin, J., 2007, The North Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Phase 1. Archaeological Survey. Summary Report, No. 1864 (Report - Assessment). SDV339712.

The house called Slew, shown surrounded by conifers in 1889, may have originated as a lodge, being at the southern extremity of the Lodge Plantation, and at the start of a four kilometre-long carriage drive leading to the early 19th-century Watermouth Castle.

Ordnance Survey, 2014, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV355681.

North Devon District Council, 2022, 76052 (Planning Application). SDV365134.

Structural and ecology reports submitted with a planning application for conversion show the barn to be a single storey, gable-ended stone-built structure. The roof structure is modern and clad with steel sheeting. The building is rectangular on plan, c.4.9m by 11.8m and stands 3.35m to eaves level. The random stone walling is about 500mm thick.
The front, north-east, elevation has a central double doorway with windows either side. The lintels are modern. There is a buttress on one side of the doorway.
The rear elevation has some blockwork infill below the eaves. There are no openings but photos show a buttress, similar to that on the front elevation, suggesting that there may once have been an opening here too. There appear to be small openings high up in the gable ends.
Photos of the interior show a blocked, buttressed doorway in the south gable end.

Ordnance Survey, 2022, Mastermap 2022 (Cartographic). SDV364674.

Marked as a ruin.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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