Description

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX76SE COLSTON ROAD
1011-1/4/18 (West side)
Three ranges of farm buildings west
of Rill Farmhouse

GV II

3 ranges of farm buildings: a shippon to the west, bank barn
with hayloft over shippon to the north and what is now a dairy
at the south, probably originally a stable. 1848 (datestone)
and contemporary with a pound house (qv). Still in
agricultural use. Local grey limestone rubble; slate roofs,
hipped at ends with glazed ridge tiles.
Plan: The buildings form 3 sides of a courtyard on a farm
notable for a sharply sloping site where the ground rises to
west of the house (qv). The 4th side is made up by a probably
earlier building, known as Dove Barn (qv), which is a bank
barn, the loft level with access from the yard. The pound
house is sited parallel to the dairy range and forms with it a
street system through the farmyard. The yard is reached from
the house by a sloping track up between Dove Barn and dairy
with an exit to the house between Dove Barn and dairy and an
exit to the fields between Dove Barn and the bank barn.
Bank barn. EXTERIOR: 4 ground floor doorways, 2 outer loft
loading doors and a shuttered 2-light window in the centre.
Loft access from the rear. The right end, at the junction with
the shippon, has been altered with larger openings, supported
by iron girder. Known as the root-house. Rear elevation has
modern building erected against rear wall, which has one large
doorway, one small doorway and a window, all into the loft.
Pockets in the rear wall indicate provision for former drive
shafts for machinery. INTERIOR: 8 trusses of queen post type
with a vertical post to the apex.
Dairy. EXTERIOR: built on sharply sloping ground and
impressively tall from the rear. The elevation facing the yard
has 2 windows in the centre flanked by doorways with a new
window at the left end. Central loft loading door flanked by
windows. Number of windows suggests original stable use.
INTERIOR: not inspected except for the loft at the right end
which has similar trusses to the other ranges.
Shippon. EXTERIOR: lofted shippon with 8 ground floor
doorways, 3 loft windows and 2 loft loading doors with a date
plaque of 1848 and the initial JIE (the house has a date
plaque of 1790 with a reference to the Edwards family).
INTERIOR: 14 trusses matching those of the bank barn.
Along with the pound house and Dove Barn this represents a
good and exceptionally complete example of a mid C19 planned
farm group with an emphasis on stock. The farmstead at Rill is
a notable feature seen from the Totnes Road.

Listing NGR: SX7505464990

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504122

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Recommended Books

• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)