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Summary

Five barns, dating to 19th century. Various stages of building evident.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• BARN (XIX - 1801 AD to 1900 AD)

Full description

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

Wapshott, E. + Boyd, N., 2017, Cleeve Farm Barns, Ivybridge, South Hams, Historic Building Recording (Report - Survey). SDV360374.

South West Archaeology Ltd. was commissioned to undertake building recording for the historic barn group at Cleeve Farm, Ivybridge, Devon. The recording was undertaken in order to assess the fabric affected by the conversion, restoration and development of this building group and to set it in its historical and archaeological context.

The site comprises a large courtyard of stone 19th century agricultural buildings, serving a minor
gentry farmholding aggrandised in the later 19th century by the construction of a large Gothicinfluenced
country house.

Barn A is a stone bank barn, with an open cow house to the south on the ground floor, possible
stable to the centre and cart shed to the north, with loft above.
Barn B is also a stone bank barn, with cow stalls on the ground floor, a probable milking parlour, with
fine quality cobbled floor and a drain.
Barn C is a stone barn, stepped down the slope to the east, attached to the south-east corner of Barn
A.
Barn D is also a bank barn, cut deeply into the slope on the north side, with blocked openings into
the front south wall, well below the ground level.
Barn E is an open-sided/fronted equipment store, supported on limestone block piers, similar to the
stonework seen in Cleeve House to the east and probably broadly contemporary to it.
The buildings have been left as shells; therefore their significance is much reduced.

The main courtyard of barns, Barn A-C, to the north, west and south are broadly of one
constructional phase, dating to the late 18th or early 19th century, likely c.1800. The barns appear on
the 1840 Tithe Map. Barn B was the first barn built on the site, then Barn A was built up against B,
with C following on consecutively, the exterior walls of all contiguous to the whole range.
Barn E, the large open-fronted shed with dressed and faced limestone piers is a much later 19th
century, or possibly even very early 20th century addition to the complex, with heavy-set A-frame
roof, with narrow Queen struts, all bolted and nailed, a much later form of build. This barn had been
built by the 1906 2nd Edition OS Map.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV7364 - Historic Building Recording at Cleeve Farm Barns, Ermington, South Hams (Ref: 170613)

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