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Summary

Building 'G' at Challacombe Medieval settlement shown on 19th century maps may once have been part of a longhouse

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX67NE/67/10

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Devon County Council, 1838-1848, Tithe Mosaic, approximately 1838-1848 (Cartographic). SDV349431.

Small square building shown on 19th century Tithe Map at 'Challacombe'

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

Two small rectangular buildings shown on 19th century map.

Gover, J. E. B. + Mawer, A. + Stenton, F. M., 1932, The Place-Names of Devon: Part Two, 481 (Monograph). SDV337894.

Challacombe was mentioned as 'Chaluecombe' in 1481 and in the 16th century.

Griffiths, D. M. + Robinson, R., 1987, Challacombe: Manuscript Survey (Report - Survey). SDV290318.

Building 'g': the lower section of the north wall of a shed has a build and structure suggesting origin as a more substantial structure, possibly the remnant of a longhouse. It is not shown on the tithe map. The row of adjacent cottages were built in the 19th century prior to the Tithe Map Apportionment and occupy the site of North Challacombe.

Agricultural Development Advisory Service, 1991, Challacombe Farm Postbridge, Devon (Duchy Farms Project), 26, Map D1 (Report - Assessment). SDV356546.

Building 'g'at Challacombe Medieval settlement is a shed whose north wall may once have been part of a longhouse. The wall is unusually wide with large blocks at the base.

Pattison, P., 1999, Challacombe Revisited, 64 (Monograph). SDV359495.

Shown as 'Building 8' on plan of the shrunken hamlet at Challacombe. Map object partly based on this source.

Ordnance Survey, 2016, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV359352.

Building not present on modern mapping.

Historic England, 2016, National Heritage List for England, 1021395 (National Heritage List for England). SDV359353.

The monument, which falls into two areas, includes a deserted Medieval settlement situated immediately north of the present day farmhouse at Challacombe. The settlement includes at least seven separate buildings set alongside a north-south aligned track. All of the buildings survive at least in part, as standing granite walling, although many are also composed of earthworks where the walling has collapsed. The settlement continued in use into the post-medieval period and some of the earlier longhouses were altered during this time. The earliest documentary reference to this site is in 1481 when it is referred to as Chalvecombe and by 1613 there were five separate tenements which continued in use until at least 1880. This building is outside the Scheduled area.

National Monument Record, 2016, Pastscape, 442451, SX67NE4 (Website). SDV359354.

Challacombe Medieval settlement with the remains of at least eight buildings. Building 'G' is a shed of which the lower section of the north wall suggest an origin as a more substantial structure, possibly a longhouse.

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Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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