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Summary

Building depicted on 19th century mapping. Now ruined and overgrown. Bickleton is recorded as Picaltona in the 1086 Domesday Book.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SS53SW/20
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SS53SW3

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• MANOR HOUSE (Early Medieval to XIX - 1066 AD to 1900 AD)

Full description

South West Heritage Trust, 1838-1848, Digitised Tithe Maps and Transcribed Apportionments (Cartographic). SDV359954.

Recorded as part of plot 722, Houses & Court, on the Instow Tithe Apportionment.

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

Long rectangular building with smaller ends shown in this location.

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

Marked as Manor House (Remains of). Comparison with the Tithe Map shows the building to be much shorter in length.

Reichel, O. J., 1928 - 1938, The Hundred of Fremington in Early Times, 499, 513, 518, 526 (Article in Monograph). SDV20648.

Bickleton was Picaltona in Domesday [1086]. It was held by Tetbald, son of Berner. Before the conquest it was held by Godewin. Some medieval descents of the manor are given.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1953, SS53SW3 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV91760.

The ancient remains of a manor house. Recorded as in use as a barn in 1903.
Site visit 20th October 1953. The remains consist of a rectangular ruin of stone the interior of which is plastered. In the north and south walls is window space. A stone and cob wall, 7m long, runs from the north-east corner and 7.0m to the east is another grass covered rectangular stone wall. There are no architectural features to suggest a date.

Exeter Archaeology, 1997, Archaeological Assessment of a Proposed Barn Conversion at Hillside Farm, Bickleton, Instow, 1 (Report - Assessment). SDV355162.

At the time of the site visit it was heavily overgrown, and was not examined in detail. Upstanding buildings still survive, but the presence of earthworks or other features could not be ascertained.

University of Southampton, 2018, North Devon Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey Desk-Based Assessment, No. 295 (Interpretation). SDV361978.

Building shown on the 1838/40 Tithe Map and 1888 first edition 25 inch Ordnance Survey map.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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