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Summary

Powlesland appears in many early documents. It has a door of 14th century type. Mullioned windows. Passage with oak partition. An adjacent old cottage has a 13th century door. A room in powlesland possesses an open fire-place of cob, flue in wall, and recess to left where ladder probably ascended to upper floor. Of this, two extraordinarily massive beams remain at level of head. The house is thatched (lega-weekes).

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX69NE/26
• Old Listed Building Ref (II*)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FARMHOUSE (Early Medieval to XVI - 1066 AD to 1600 AD (Between))

Full description

DOE 1960, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV251610.

Rubble and cob with thatched roof. End brick stacks and large granite lateral chimney. Two storeys. Open fireplaces. Plank and muntin partition in hall. Wood stairs with solid steps.16th century and earlier. Much altered and mutilated comparatively recently (doe 1960).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV251613.

Lega-weekes, e. /tda/34(1902)578-467/the neighbours of north wyke. Part ii.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV251614.

Alcock, n. W. /cruck construction(cba res rep 42)/(1981)111.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV251615.

Doe/hhr:okehampton rd/(-/2/1960)28.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV251616.

Gover, j. E. B. + mawer, a. + stenton, f. M. /the place-names of devon/(1931)449.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV251617.

Doe/hhr:south tawton/(4/3/1988)120.

Department of Environment, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV327144.

Powlesland farmhouse, former dartmoor longhouse-type. Early c16 with major later c16 and c17 modernizations. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings; granite stacks, the hall one with a tall granite ashlar chimneystack, the hall one with a tall granite ashlar chimneyshaft; thatch roof, shippon/stable end replaced with corrugated iron. T-plan house. The main block faces se and is built down a very gentle slope. It has a 3 room and through passage plan. Two storeys. A c20 outshot on right end. House part has regular but far from symmetrical 3 window front of c20 casements with glazing bars, those on the first floor are gabled half dormers. Oak plank and muntin screen. Large hall fireplace of granite ashlar with a hollow-chamfered surround. Cream oven to upper end cob crosswall. Mid c17 straight flight stair. Roof is gable-ended. Original roof over passage and hall. Roof over inner room parlour inaccessible. Evidence of smoke-blackening. Other roof structural features. See doe list for full details (doe).

Alcock, N. W., Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV57461.

Jointed crucks recorded (alcock).

Reichel, O. J., 1902, The Devonshire Domesday (Article in Serial). SDV22298.

Powlesland appears in many early documents. It has a door of 14th century type. Mullioned windows. Passage with oak partition. An adjacent old cottage has a 13th century door. A room in powlesland possesses an open fire-place of cob, flue in wall, and recess to left where ladder probably ascended to upper floor. Of this, two extraordinarily massive beams remain at level of head. The house is thatched (lega-weekes).

Gover, J. E. B. + Mawer, A. + Stenton, F. M., 1931, The Place-Names of Devon: Part One (Monograph). SDV1312.

Documented in 1244 and 1333 (mawer et al).

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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