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| HER Number: | MDV79543 |
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| Name: | Piggery at Bearscombe Farm |
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Summary
Stone-built pigsty with slate roof.
Location
| Grid Reference: | SX 749 538 |
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| Map Sheet: | SX75SW |
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| Admin Area | Devon |
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| Civil Parish | Diptford |
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| District | South Hams |
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| Ecclesiastical Parish | DIPTFORD |
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Protected Status: none recorded
Other References/Statuses: none recorded
Monument Type(s) and Dates
Full description
Child, P., 2003, Piggery at Bearscombe Farm, Diptford (Correspondence). SDV346772.
The piggery sits immediately below the farmhouse. It is a small stone building with a mono-pitch slate roof, pitched towards the east. It has three doorways, the southern of which is double width. There is one internal stone dividing wall. As with most Devon pigsties there are no windows.
The building is in very poor condition. It has a peg slate roof - once ubiquitous in the South Hams, but now rare. The roof was covered with a weak mortar (on the advice of a German prisoner of war, many years ago). The walls are also in poor condition with the southern wall badly cracked and probably needing rebuilding. The mortar of the rear wall is hardly visible anymore.
Ordnance Survey, 2011, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV346129.
Sources / Further Reading
| SDV346129 | Cartographic: Ordnance Survey. 2011. MasterMap. Ordnance Survey. Map (Digital). [Mapped feature: #106344 ] |
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| SDV346772 | Correspondence: Child, P.. 2003. Piggery at Bearscombe Farm, Diptford. Countryside Stewardship Advice Letter. A4 Single Sheet. |
Associated Monuments
| MDV67066 | Part of: Lower Bearscombe (Monument) |
Associated Finds: none recorded
Associated Events: none recorded
| Date Last Edited: | Mar 2 2011 9:33AM |
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