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Summary

This ruined building forms an outlying part of Hentor Farm. Survives as a rectangular drystone structure with 1m wide walls standing up to 0.9m high, surrounding an internal area of 6.1m by 3.5m. The function of this building could not be established but it was probably used for storage or as an animal house.

Location

Protected Status

• Scheduled Monument 1019082: Multi-period remains at Hentor Warren

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX 56 NE 78
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX56NE/165
• Old SAM Ref: 24230(P)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FARM BUILDING (Constructed, XV to XIX - 1401 AD (Between) to 1899 AD (Between))

Full description

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

Shown as a hut circle on 19th century map at this location.

Royal Air Force, 1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1890, 4286 (Aerial Photograph). SDV169268.

Building visible on the aerial photograph.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1950, SX56NE78, outbuilding (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV163730.

(02/06/1950) SX 5891 6553 Feature V. This is the ruins of a small rectangular building, probably an outbuilding of Hentor House which appears to have been shown in an error on the Ordnance Survey mapping as a hut circle.

Price, D. G., 1980, The Moorland Plym, 112 (Article in Serial). SDV254604.

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, Aerial Photograph Project (Dartmoor) - Dartmoor Pre-NMP (Cartographic). SDV319854.

Rectangular building attached by long axis to a field boundary of the Hentor Warren small field system (SX56NE/379) visible on the 1946 aerial image.

Gerrard, S., 1990-2002, Monument Protection Programme. Archaeological Item Dataset., MPP 140489 (Report - Survey). SDV277946.

(18/05/1995) SX 5891 6552. This building forms an outlying part of Hentor Farm. Survives as a rectangular drystone structure with 1m wide walls standing up to 0.9m high, surrounding an internal area of 6.1m by 3.5m.
A 1.1m wide gap in the northern wall, flanked by faced stones marks the entrance. The interior is filled with rubble and the internal partition identified by butler could not be traced. The function of this building could not be established but it was probably used for storage or as an animal house.

Butler, J., 1994, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities: Volume Three - The South-West, 122-3, Map 49, Figure 49.8 (Monograph). SDV137656.

Small rectangular building shown to the south-west of Hentor House with an internal division.

Thackray, C., 1994, The Upper Plym Valley: the management of an historic landscape. Management Strategies and Archaeological Site Inventory, 232-4, 102.908, 102.910 (Report - Survey). SDV143510.

English Heritage, 2005-2008, Medieval Survey Information (Report - Survey). SDV345602.

Rectangular building shown on survey.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording forms, UPHT-25 (Worksheet). SDV362781.

(05/02/2020) Condition of outbuilding 4 assessed as moderate; vegetation encroachment is threatening this feature. The HER description for this building is accurate, although the faced stones described by Gerrard at entrance not identified by recorder. Scattered low height bracken throughout. No recent deterioration evident.

Various, 2018-2020, PALs Condition Recording photographs (Photograph). SDV363073.

Photographs taken during February 2020 visit.

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

Building shown on modern mapping.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8148 - The Upper Plym Valley: The Management of an Historic Landscape
• EDV8155 - Plym Valley Survey: EH Project (Feb 2001 - Dec 2002)
• EDV8965 - Aerial survey of guardianship sites on Dartmoor

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