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Summary

Farmhouse at Chittleford, formerly a longhouse. Dates to the 16th century or earlier; inscribed with 1686 in the eastern porch, when house was remodelled. Constructed from granite rubble with slated roof and granite ashlar chimney stack.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1241387: CHITTLEFORD FARMHOUSE

Other References/Statuses

• National Monuments Record: SX77NW39
• National Record of the Historic Environment: 445135
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX77NW/54
• Old Listed Building Ref (II): 440431
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX77NW39

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• LONGHOUSE (Built, XV to XVII - 1401 AD (Between) to 1686 AD (Between))

Full description

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

Chittleford, field number 865 (house and yard) depicted on the Tithe Map.

Falcon, T. A., 1904-1905, Some Dartmoor Farmhouses, 253 (Article in Serial). SDV337006.

Moorland farmhouse, Chittleford. Chittleford is an ancient Dartmoor farmhouse, it has the date 1686.

Copeland, G. W., 1936-1937, Some Devon Gatehouses and Porches, 72 (Article in Serial). SDV309451.

The farm at Chittleford has the date 1686 and 2 porches each of one storey in this same court.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1960, SX77NW39 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV326342.

(11/05/1960) Chittleford (name over entrance) is a two storeyed house, the windows in the north and south face having hoodmoulds with decorated terminals. The eastern porch has the date 168 (? 0) in the spandrels. The western porch has been demolished and parts of the doorway are now reset in the rebuilt western end of the house.
Ground photograph: see AO/60/14/1.

Beeson, M. M. R. + Masterman, M. C. H., 1979, An Archaeological Survey of Enclosed Land in Widecombe-In-The-Moor Parish, Vol I, 145 (Report - Survey). SDV337078.

Visited 10/8/1979. Chittleford or Shilstone stud is now run as a pony stud by the Newbolt-Youngs. The date on the porch reads 1689. The layout of the buildings is different from 1843. It appears that what used to be shippen end of the house has been taken down. The remains of the end wall can still be seen and the living quarters remain.
There is a cobbled courtyard and an old mounting block. Also a worn granite step where the carts used to cross. A coat of arms has been discovered inside the house pieced by a purlin, but the fact that it is in the north wing extension suggests that it is of relatively late date. This wing has been further extended since 1843. Good example of an outside lavatory (twin seater).

Ordnance Survey, 2013, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV350786.

English Heritage, 2013, National Heritage List for England, 1241387 (National Heritage List for England). SDV350785.

WIDECOMBE-IN- SX 77 NW THE-MOOR 2/139 Chittleford Farmhouse 23.8.55-GV II
Farmhouse, formerly a longhouse. C16 or earlier, remodelled 1689; shippon demolished in early C20, but gable-wall survives as part of a pigsty (separately listed). Granite rubble. Slated roof. Granite ashlar chimneystack with thatch weatherings and tapered top on each gable of main range. Rear range has smaller rendered stacks on right-hand and gable-walls, the latter stack with thatch weatherings. Plan appears to have had a shippon and cross-passage at left-hand end, both now demolished and replaced by a small lean-to. Hall and parlour to right, formerly with a through-passage between them (rear doorway now converted into a window); passage was probably inserted in 1689. Rear wing, originally 2 rooms long and believed to have been built in 2 stages, probably added in C17. 2 storeys. 3- window front. The 2 ground-storey windows have straight hood-moulds with carved terminals; granite lintels belong to former mullioned windows and were found in garden in C20. All windows have C20 casements, except for one possibly C19 in centre of second storey. In centre bay of ground storey a gabled, granite ashlar porch; this has a round-arched doorway with three-quarter-round moulding and carved spandrels including initials TL and date 1689. Above the arch a moulded cornice and at apex of gable a ball-finial. Inner doorway has C20 wood frame; door, which may be earlier than 1689, is of studded vertical planks with scratch mouldings at the edges and has wrought-iron strap-hinges with fleurs-de-lys terminals. Rear doorway of through-passage (now a window) has hood-mould with carved terminals; lintel, formerly head of a mullioned window, was found in the garden. In the left-hand end wall; re-set from front door of original cross-passage, is a moulded, 4-centred granite arch with carved spandrels; above it is an old carved stone emblem with date 1890 added beneath it. Interior: right-hand ground-storey room (former parlour) has very large granite fireplace with chamfered jambs having pyramid stops and an ogee-moulded lintel which, however, fits the opening exactly; upper part of lintel, butted by the upper floor joists, is carved with the primitive figures of a fox and a goose. Left-hand room has hollow-moulded granite fireplace with corbelled lintel; it must originally have backed on to the through-passage. In the wing the side-fireplace adjacent to the front range has hollow-moulded joists and plain lintel, all of granite. Gable fireplace has roughly-chamfered wood lintel with run-out stops. Roof-trusses late C17 or early C18, with collars pegged and nailed to the faces of the principal rafters. The demolished shippon end is shown on the 25 in. Ordnance Survey Map of 1905 and is reported to be illustrated in a water-colour belonging to Mr Mann of Buckfastleigh, who formerly lived in the house. This was clearly the house of someone of considerable social standing; it has excellent outbuildings which are separately listed.
Listing NGR: SX7223875741

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