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Summary

Building shown on historic maps as Fairfield Linhay. Now converted to a milking parlour and surrounded by modern cowsheds and barns.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• DAIRY (XIX - 1801 AD to 1900 AD (Between))

Full description

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

'Fairfield Linhay' marked on 1880s-1890s 25 inch Ordnance Survey map, comprising two adjoining structures alongside road.

Wessex Archaeology, 2007, Historic Environment Audit of Devon County Farms. Pilot Project. Results of Fairfield Farm, Denbury, Newton Abbot, 4, 10, pl.1-2 (Report - Assessment). SDV338222.

The 1839 Tithe Map shows a building on this site, which is named as 'Fairfield Linhay' on the 1888 Ordnance Survey Map with an extension on the east side. Stone built with gabled ends under corrugated sheet roof. There are many blocked openings with a mixture of stone and red brick dressings suggesting many alterations. Now converted to a milking parlour and surrounded by moden cowsheds and barn. Now part of Fairfield Farm, one of the 93 farm holdings which make up Devon County Farms Estate. The farm currently covers an area of c50.3 hectares of gently rolling land characterised as a mixture of medieval enclosures based on strip fields, post medieval enclosures and broadleaved plantations. A number of field boundaries have now disappeared. Other details: No 1247.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV4199 - Devon County Farms Historic Environment Audit (Pilot Project)

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