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Summary

Lettaford appears to have originated circa 1450-1550 with three longhouses, each with its own yard(s) and ranges of farm buildings. Higher Lettaford is the southern of these three steadings with Southmeads to the north and Sanders to the north-east.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• FARMSTEAD (Founded, XV to XVI - 1401 AD to 1600 AD)

Full description

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

Arrangement of buildings depicted is much the same as shown on modern mapping. The apportionment records plot 866 at 'Higher Littaford' as House and Courtlage with the adjacent plot (867) as Garden.

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

Liddaford marked. The buildings of Higher Lettaford comprise the southern part of the settlement.

Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1985, Aerial Photograph Project (Dartmoor) - Dartmoor Pre-NMP (Cartographic). SDV319854.

Visible and recorded.

Child, P., 2003, Historic Farm Buildings Group: Annual Conference Devon 19-21 September 2003, 8-9 (Report - non-specific). SDV351745.

The farmhouse was rebuilt in the early 19th century, leaving part of the old house as a service end. Opposite the main front of the house is a substantial barn and to the east a range of granite buildings which are listed as a bullock house, colt house and linhay on the Valuation Office Survey. The range to the south of the house included a trap house, stables, shippon and pigsties.

Humphreys, C., 2003-2005, Dartmoor National Park Authority Historic Farmstead Survey 2003-2005 (Report - Survey). SDV344545.

Farmstead included in survey. Visited on 25/08/2005.

Keystone Historic Buildings Consultants, 2014, Higher Lettaford, North Bovey, Devon, 2-4, 26 (Report - Survey). SDV356882.

Lettaford appears to have originated circa 1450-1550 with three longhouses, each with its own yard(s) and ranges of farm buildings. Higher Lettaford is the southern of these three steadings with Southmeads to the north and Sanders to the north-east. Higher Lettaford faces south with its main farmyard to the north. A large threshing barn lies on the north side of the yard parallel to the house and to the south is a stable block. A spring issues from a terrace at the top of the southern yard which now feeds a granite trough. At the time of the 1839 tithe award Higher Lettaford was own by Pinsent Burton and occupied by William Rogers who was farming 95 acres. It is listed in the apportionment as Higher Littaford and Blacksticks, the latter occupying three small fields in the northern part of the farm. The settlement is recorded as Liddaford on the 1886 Ordnance Survey map.

Ordnance Survey, 2014, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV355681.

Valuation Office, c.1910-1915, Valuation Office Survey: Higher Lettaford (Record Office Collection). SDV366991.

Valuation of land and buildings. Includes an annotated plan of the farmstead.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV6529 - Historic Building Survey at Higher Lettaford, North Bovey

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