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Summary

Longhouse is likely to be 16th century but no dateable features are visible. Higher end much altered and extended in later 20th century. Longhouse plan with shippon at left end with passage, hall and inner room at the right. The house end has been altered and completely modernised in the later 20th century and a one-room extension has been built at its higher end.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1170792: PIZWELL COTTAGE

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX67NE70
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 914307
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67NE/292
• Old Listed Building Ref (II): 92783

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• LONGHOUSE (Built, XV to Late 20th Century - 1500 AD (Between) to 1998 AD (Between))

Full description

Department of Environment, 1987, Lydford, 24 (List of Blds of Arch or Historic Interest). SDV266265.

Pizwell Cottage. Longhouse. Likely to be 16th century but no dateable features are visible. Higher end much altered and extended in later 20th century. Granite rubble walls. Gable ended slate roof. Two 20th century rendered axial stacks.
Longhouse plan with shippon at left end with passage, hall and inner room at the right. Exterior: two storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front to the house of late 20th century 1 and 2 light casements. Small probably 19th century lean-to. Shippon at left-hand end. Remains of outshut at rear of shippon.
Interior: no original or early features are visible in the house part. The shippon remains completely unaltered, retaining its original cobbled and stone paved floor with a central drain. The roof timbers completely replaced in 20th century.
Despite alterations to its higher end this building remains recognisably a longhouse with a particularly good example of a very unaltered shippon. It is situated in a very traditional group of 3 longhouses and the site of pizwell was one of the 17 ancient tenements of the forest of dartmoor, first mentioned in documents in 1260. See list for full details.

Royal Commission for the Historical Monuments of England, 1987-1993, Duchy Farms Project Survey Visit (Report - Survey). SDV350839.

(13/10/1988) Situated at SX 6682 7848, this is one of a group of three longhouses at Pizwell hamlet. See attached 1:2500 plan for location. Inaccessible at time of field visit, but still occupied.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV8637 - Runnage and Higher Pizwell Farm, Duchy Farms Survey
• EDV8409 - Dartmoor Royal Forest Project
• EDV8423 - Duchy Farms Project

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