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Summary

The farmstead developed in the later 19th century around an earlier sheep fold which is shown on the Tithe Map.

Location

Protected Status

• Registered Park or Garden (II*) 1000687: ARLINGTON COURT
• SHINE: Traditional farm buildings, pump, pond and well, marked on nineteenth century mapping at Home Farm, Arlington Court

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SS64SW/137
• SHINE Candidate (Yes)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FARMSTEAD (Built, XVIII to XIX - 1800 AD (Between) to 1900 AD (Between))

Full description

National Trust, National Trust Sites and Monuments Record (SMR record). SDV366466.

Home farm, Arlington. An 1870's farmstead built of local stone, acted as the home farm for Arlington Court in the late 19th and early 20th century, taking over the function of Barton Court and supplying milk, butter etc to the Chichester family. Home Farm farmhouse is south facing, built into a hillside, two-storey at front, three-storey at sides and rear. Symmetrical frontage with twin gables, decorated barge boards, gable ended open porch and white brick quoins, jambs, lintels and first floor window relieving arches. Window sills and mullions of cut stone with chamfer and run-out stops. Rear elevation with west side recessed. Ground floor infilling of angle with continous outshut extension supported on rubble stone pillar, forming porch below. Parallel gables to rear with plain barge boards. Brick lintels to windows and porch heads (to north and west). Sides with brick lintels to lower ground floor windows, white brick jambs and lintels to ground and first floor windows. Two sets of chimney stacks centrally positioned on axial lines of north-south ridges; single exterior stack on east side. Rubble stone walls with slight recess above lower ground floor. Roof is slate with decorated red ridge tiles. Outbuildings include a stable, calf house, threshing barn, engine shed, granary and ciderhouse, pigsties, cowshed, garage, linhay, dairy and silage clamp. Most of these buildings were built at the same time as the house, between 1871 and 1878, with a couple of earlier buildings and some late 20th century buildings such as the silage clamp

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

The Arlington Tithe Map shows ranges of buildings around four sides of a yard. Recorded as a sheep fold on the Tithe Apportionment (Plot 468). To the north and south are two plantations (466 and 467).

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

Home Farm depicted. Comparison with the Tithe Map shows the farmstead to have developed and the farmhouse built. Several discrete ranges of buildings are shown. To the north of the farmhouse is an L-shaped range with what appears to be a horse engine house in the corner of the 'L'. Immediately to the north-east of this range is a separate linhay. To the west of the farmhouse is the separate yard depicted on the Tithe Map, with ranges of buildings on each side and entrances on the east and west sides. Further buildings are shown adjoining the north side. Extending south and west from the farmhouse is a laid out garden.

National Trust, 1985-1988, Arlington Estate: Historic Building Records, A1/12 (Un-published). SDV354537.

South facing farmstead near the roadside to the north of Arlington Court. Built of local stone, the farmstead fits in well with its surroundings. It acted as the home farm for Arlington Court in the late 19th and early 20th century, taking over from Barton Court. It supplied milk, butter, eggs, cream etc to the Chichesters.
Farm buildings include a threshing barn and horse engine house, pigsties, daily, calf house and a ciderhouse or granary.

Wade-Martins, S., 2000, The Farmsteads of Devon: A Thematic Survey, 21 (Report - Survey). SDV351739.

Includes a sheep shed, built in 1870.

Sources / Further Reading

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