Description

ASHBURTON

SX77SE HALSHANGER
849-1/2/238 Halshanger Farmhouse and attached
courtyard of buildings with central
dung pit

II

Farmhouse and attached buildings, formerly the home farmstead
of Halshanger Manor (not listed), which lies 50m to east.
Built between 1840 and 1887. Stone rubble with detail in
dressed granite. Slated roofs. Red-brick chimneys. House and
buildings enclose a square cobbled courtyard with access
through a covered gateway on N side. House, architecturally
almost indistinguishable from the rest, in SE corner.
Buildings have shippons and stable in ground storey; cartshed
in NE corner, entered from outside. Lofts above; bank barn
with 2 threshing-floors on W side. In centre a very large
round dungpit. 2 storeys. Openings mostly have segmental
arches with raised keystones. Some rusticated detail,
including surrounds of archways to covered gateway and
cartshed entrance. Dungpit enclosed by low stone-rubble wall
with coping of roughly-squared granite blocks. Iron
water-wheel at south end of barn. Adjoining the buildings on
west is the former mowhay or rickyard complete with granite
staddle-stones (now minus their mushroom tops). Interior:
house not inspected. Some of shippons have cobbled floors and
red-brick feeding troughs. Some machinery associated with
water-wheel.
(Ashburton Tithe Map 1840: 1887-: OS 25 INCH).

Listing NGR: SX7573473374

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571813

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)