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Summary

Leigh barton, remains of manor house. Belonged to tavistock abbey, and granted to lord john russel at dissolution. Remains of medieval house incorporated in present farm house which has been remodelled in recent times. Two tudor style fireplaces (os).

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX37NE/508
• Old Listed Building Ref (II*)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• MANOR HOUSE (VIII to XXI - 701 AD to 2009 AD (Between))

Full description

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV254702.

Reichel, o. J. /tda/28(1896)466/the domesday hundreds: liston.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV254703.

Reichel, o. J. /tda/46(1914)223,225,235,237/the hundred of tavistock in early times.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV254704.

Hoskins, w. G. /dcnq/23(1947-1949)275/the meaning of barton.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV254705.

Doe/hhr: tavistock rd/(-/2/1960)18/provisional list.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV254706.

Finberg, h. P. R. /tavistock abbey/(1969).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV254707.

Doe/hhr:milton abbot/(7/11/1985)119.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV254708.

Hoskins, w. G. Devon/(1946).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV254709.

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

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV254710.

Cherry, b. + pevsner, n. /the buildings of england: devon/(1989).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV254711.

Dyer, m. J. + manning, p. T. /objective 5b: lower tamar valley recreation and land management initiative: cultural heritage appraisal/(1998) 24-25/(ea report 98.60).

REICHEL, 1914, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV2639.

The holders in the 12th, 13th centuries are given from various sources including testa de nevil and the "return" of tavistock abbey (reichel, 1914).

Dyer, M. + Manning, P., Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV27135.

Recorded as leghe in 1291 and mentioned in c18 dean milles' questionnaire (dyer + manning).

Department of Environment, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV326070.

Early xvi century. Much altered in xix when windows were removed to morwell. Rubble with slate roof. Segmental headed granite entrance doorway. Two fine granite fireplaces. Collar braced timber roof (doe).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV335.

An example of a typical barton farm having been originally domesday manor with a separate subsequent manorial history from the chief manor in which it lay (hoskins).

REICHEL, 1896, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV219468.

Domesday land of lege, held by the abbot of tavistock with the manor of milton abbot in demense. Held by an unnamed saxon thegn at the time of king edward (reichel, 1896).

DATESTONE, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV254698.

Farmhouse. Early c16 with alterations of 1847. Hurdwick stone rubble with a slate roof gabled at ends, 2 gable end stone stacks and 1 stone stack on the ridge. The present building is probably a fragment of a large courtyard plan house which is likely to have been the "leigh" referred to as one of the original endowments to tavistock abbey. The original plan of the surviving range may have been 3 rooms and a through passage with an open hall associated with a stack and a ceiled heated inner room. The roof trusses are not smoke-blackened and are consistent in design throughout the length of the range and appear to be early c16. The ceiling of the inner room also appears to be early c16 as does the ceiling of small rectangular room possibly an oriel, giving off the inner room. Alternatively, there may have been a great chamber and no open hall, although there is no visible evidence of an early fireplace at first floor level. The present plan is under a 2-span roof, the rear span is an addition and may represent the re-roofing of a stair turret at the rear of the inner room, the adjoining oriel and the provision of a later stair at the rear of the former through passage. A rear right wing forms an l-plan.2 storeys.5-bay asymmetrical front appears to have been largely refaced in 1847 (datestone), when the house was refenestrated and the mullioned windows were removed to morwell. Slightly advanced gabled bay in the centre has 1847 in the gable and may represent either the stub of early wing or a desire for symmetry in 1847. The plinth appears to be original only to the left of the central bay which has a c19 timber casement window and a similar smaller window to the first floor. Off-centre granite doorway to the right of the central bay. Windows are c19 casements, the first floor windows being half-dormers with slate-hung gables. A variation in the plinth at the right-hand end of the front suggests that rebuilding has occurred at the right end, which contains a blocked chamfered architrave for a mullioned window and a chamfered slit window at approximately the level of the first floor. In addition, the right-hand end also appears to have 2 blocked quatrefoil lights.

DOE, 1985, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV254699.

Interior: 12 trusses with principals with curved feet which appear to be raised crucks. Original rafters intact. At the lower end the principals rest on a moulded timber bressumer visible in one upstairs room. The inner room has a fine ceiling with long moulded axial beams carried on moulded granite corbels. Moulded granite fireplace. The small rectangular room giving off the inner room has 3 less elaborately moulded axial beams with stops. There was formerly a solid wall with a small doorway between this and the inner room, the wall has been removed. The middle room has a large moulded granite fireplace.3 moulded granite corbels to the front wall presumably formerly supported cross beams. A blocked chamfered arched doorway on the rear wall is puzzling. The lower end room has a good mid c19 chimney piece. Some evidence for the scale of the original build at leigh is apparent from numerous moulded and worked granite stones in the garden including what may be gatepier finials with blind flamboyant tracery. Finberg states that the location of the "leigh" referred to in the tavistock abbey documents cannot be identified with certainty (doe, 1985).

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1951, SX37NE13 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV254701.

Leigh Barton, remains of Manor House. Leigh Barton belonged to Tavistock abbey and was granted to Lord John Russel at the dissolution. There are considerable remains of the medieval house incorporated in the present farm house which has been remodelled in comparatively recent times. There are two Tudor style fireplaces in the house.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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