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Summary

Livaton.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX69SE/32
• Old Listed Building Ref (II)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FARMHOUSE (Early Medieval to Post Medieval - 1066 AD to 1750 AD (Between))

Full description

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV270909.

Livaton.

DOE 1960, Untitled Source (Report - Survey). SDV270911.

Vis=rubble and cob building with hipped thatched roof.17th century or earlier (doe 1960).

GIRVAN, Untitled Source (Report - Survey). SDV270912.

Vis=a quarter of this building is uninhabitable (girvan).

DOE 1988, Untitled Source (Report - Survey). SDV270914.

Vis=livaton farmhouse including garden walls adjoining to north. Early or mid 16th century with major later c16 and c17 improvements. Refurbished in the early 19th century. Plastered cob on stone rubble footings. Cob and granite stacks. Thatch roof. Basically an e plan house. The main block faces north. It has a 4 room and through passage plan. Two service rooms on the right end. Early development of house difficult to ascertain probably an open hall house. The walls still retain sections of early 19th century plaster render which is incised as ashlar and includes fat stucco architraves to the windows and doorway. Main roof is hipped each end. Much of the interior is the result of the early 19th century modernization. Roof of main block appears to be completely smoke-blackened. Front garden is enclosed by a low granite rubble wall, probably early 19th century. See doe list for futher details (doe 1988).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV270915.

Lega-weekes, e. /tda/34(1902)647/neighbours of north wyke, part 2, notes on some old houses in the manor of itton.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV270916.

Doe/hhr:okehampton rd/(1960)26.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV270917.

Girvan, b. /dcnq/32(1971-1973)219/livaton farm and fuidge house.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV270918.

Des=king, a. /dcra survey a30 whiddon down to tongue end/(26/2/1979)/ worksheet/in smr.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV270919.

Gover, j. E. B. + mawer, a. + stenton, f. M. /the place-names of devon/(1931)449.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV270920.

Doe/hhr:south tawton/(4/3/1988)109-110.

GOVER, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV308185.

Vis=documented in 1168, 1330, 1340 and 1546 (gover).

Reichel, O. J., 1902, The Devonshire Domesday (Article in Serial). SDV22298.

Vis=est -/-/1901 (lega-weekes). In parlour, mantel made up of finely fluted mahogany or rosewood, said to have been brought from church when restored. In old wing a newel staircase in a small square recess, elliptic doorhead with central notch (henry vii?) very wide fire-places with mouldings around them (lega-weekes).

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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