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Summary

Cottage dates to the mid-late 19th century, based on cartographic evidence. The 1840s Tithe Map shows dwellings on this site, but these may have been replaced by the current building.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• COTTAGE NON SPECIFIC (Built, XIX - 1850 AD? (Between) to 1899 AD (Between))

Full description

South West Heritage Trust, 1838-1848, Digitised Tithe Maps and Transcribed Apportionments, 1305 (Cartographic). SDV359954.

The Walkhampton Tithe Map shows a larger dwelling occupying this site and extending eastwards. Marked on the Apportionment (plot 1305) as a dwelling house (part of Ward Meadow estate). Plot to the east (1306) is another dwelling.

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

The late 19th century historic map shows some changes since the Tithe Map depiction. A single building now occupies the site and may be a replacement.

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

Building is depicted on the early 20th century historic map, adjacent to the Post Office building (MDV114842).

Dartmoor National Park Authority, 2013, Walkhampton Conservation Area Appraisal (draft), 20 (Report - Assessment). SDV359522.

Recorded in appraisal as historic building with modern alterations.

Ordnance Survey, 2021, MasterMap 2021 (Cartographic). SDV364015.

Building is depicted on the modern mapping. Marked as 'The Cottage' on GIS mapping/Streetview images.

Vint, C., 2022, The Cottage, Walkhampton (Un-published). SDV364805.

(April 2022) Building and north garden wall.
The house (ref no. 1305 on the Tithe Apportionment) is part of the estate of Ward Meadow, owned by Henry Adams and occupied by William Benny in 1839. A single house and field are the totality of the estate in Walkhampton.
The garden to The Cottage, including the roadside wall is described on the tithe apportionment of 1839 (ref. no. 1306) as dwelling houses, outhouses and gardens, Sir Ralph Lopes Baronet is the landowner and William Creber the lessee. It is occupied by ‘William Russell, James Reed and others’, which suggests multiple occupation of the long L–shaped building as ‘cottages’.
The cottages have been removed at the time of survey for the first edition Ordinance Survey in 1882/3, this is common where conditions may be ‘unsanitary’. However, the north wall survives in part as the garden wall to The Cottage. A further length of this north wall appears to be that demolished to form the neighbouring parking area, which was carried out prior to the designation of the Conservation Area.

Sources / Further Reading

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