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Summary

Whitmoor Farm, Bishop's Tawton

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SS53SE/23

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Rance, C., Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV15584.

The buildings are depicted on os surveyor's draft of 1804-5. Medieval work survives including a c15 oak doorway + an outlying barn below whitemoor hill which has a 'cruck' roof (hoskins 1972). Trackway to bridge at whitemoor mill no longer exists across site of farm (rance).

RCHM, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV7666.

Building of cob and stone. Incorporating part of earlier dwelling of 16th century, with arched timber doorway and cruck truss; chimney added in 17th century; later alterations and rebuilding (rchm).

ALCOCK, CITING RCHM AND OLIVER, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV77287.

True cruck recorded at whitemoor (alcock, citing rchm and oliver).

SS53SE/142, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV77288.

There is some confusion in the record between this building which is not listed and the barn (ss53se/142) (timms).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV77290.

Oliver, b. W. /tda/81(1949)37,40 pl.18 fig 2. /the devonshire cottage.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV77291.

Gover, j. E. B. + mawer, a. + stenton, f. M. /the place-names of devon/(1931)353.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV77292.

Rchm/monuments threatened or destroyed 1956-1962/(1963)30.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV77293.

Alcock, n. W. /cruck construction(cba res rep 42)/(1981)109.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV77294.

Des=timms, s. /as above/(1/2/1984).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV77295.

Hoskins, w. G. /devon/(1954)338.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV77296.

Rance, c. /archaeological assessment of proposed quarry tip at venn quarries, landkey/(1995)3,4/(emafu report 95.06).

Gover, J. E. B. + Mawer, A. + Stenton, F. M., 1931, The Place-Names of Devon: Part One (Monograph). SDV1312.

Whitemoor farm. Earliest known documentary evidence is to "whitemor" in 1249 (gover et al). Nearby barn with surviving medieval work. See ss53se/142.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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