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Summary

Ruins of a building 600 metres south of the Rattlebrook peatworks. The walls, of mortared, dressed granite blocks are 0.5 metres wide and stand to a maximum height of 5 metres in the north-eastern corner. The main room measures 6.6 metres north-south and 3.6 metres east-west. The chimney in this room has collapsed. A doorway leads from this room to two further rooms. The building probably originally had two storeys, although there is no evidence of any joists. Hemery states that this building was the house built in about 1879 for the manager of the Rattlebrook peatworks and was originally known as "Dunnagoat Cottage".

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX58NE44
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 1063887

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FOREMANS HOUSE (Constructed, XIX - 1870 AD (Between) to 1879 AD (Between))

Full description

Hemery, E., 1983, High Dartmoor, 976 (Monograph). SDV249702.

This building was the house built in about 1879 for the manager of the Rattlebrook peatworks and was originally known as "Dunnagoat Cottage".

Butler, J., 1991, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Two - The North, 222, Map 43, Site '16' (Monograph). SDV219155.

Half a kilometre downstream from Rattle Brook peatwork buildings stands the gaunt shell of Bleak House, once the manager's dwelling built on the debris discarded by the tin streamers.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1993-1998, Dartmoor Royal Forest Project (Report - Survey). SDV346608.

(17/08/1994) The ruins of a building stand on the eastern bank of the Rattle Brook at SX 5597 8684, some 600m south of the Rattlebrook peat works (SX 58 NE 43). The walls, of mortared, dressed granite blocks are 0.5m wide and stand to a maximum height of 5m in the north-eastern corner. The main room measures 6.6m north-south and 3.6m east-west. The chimney in this room has collapsed. A doorway leads from this room to two further rooms. The building probably originally had two storeys, although there is no evidence of any joists.

English Heritage, 2005, Survey Information (miscellaneous date) (Report - Survey). SDV345855.

Ruined building depicted on survey layer.

Ordnance Survey, 2024, Mastermap 2024 (Cartographic). SDV365834.

'Bleak House' shown as a small square building on modern mapping.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project
• EDV8813 - Archaeological and historical investigation of Peat Cutting on North-Western Dartmoor

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