Description

LYDFORD
SX 67 NE
12/13 Partially-ruined longhouse
- approximately 70 metres north-
- east of Babeny Farmhouse
II

Former longhouse, now used as shippon. Circa early-mid C16. Granite rubble walls.
Gable ended corrugated iron roof to shippon and passage, house end roofless.
Longhouse plan of shippon to the left with passage, hall and probably inner room to
the right. Built in front of the shippon is a leanto likely originally to have been
a pigsty. To its right in front of the passage is a leanto stone rubble porch
which has stone seats inside. On the right-hand wall of the passage, now the gable
end, is the large granite framed fireplace, unchamfered, with massive lintel and
stone oven in left-hand side. The rear wall of the hall survives up to head height
and incorporates some blocked window openings and a curious larger opening at ground
level, the purpose of which is unclear. The lower gable end wall of the shippon
incorporates some large granite blocks and has a central drainage hole with a small
opening above it. On the rear wall of the shippon is a central inserted doorway
with a slit either side.
Interior : the passage has a solid wall to the shippon with an original wooden
shouldered-head doorframe.
Babeny is the site of one of the 17 Ancient Tenements of the Forest of Dartmoor and
is first mentioned in a document of 1260.

Listing NGR: SX6722475179

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26399363

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Recommended Books

• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  For the Record