Description

PLYMOUTH

SX55SW STADDISCOMBE ROAD
740-1/8/610 (North side (off))
01/05/75 Plymstock, Staddiscombe
Range of Stables, Barns and Cart
Sheds west of Courtgates Farmhouse

GV II

Range of farm buildings including 2 threshing barns, shippon
with loft, pigsties and an implement or waggon shed. 1843
datestone with shield and initials ERPB to main barn but range
to left of this earlier and implement shed probably late C19.
Local rubble walls, some openings spanned by timber lintels, 2
openings of top barn spanned by elliptical arches of dressed
limestone; slurried scantle slate roofs to pigsties, otherwise
asbestos slate, mostly half-hipped roofs.
PLAN: overall a U-shaped plan partly enclosing a farmyard and
with their main openings facing into the yard: the 2 principal
barns are adjoining to right-hand corner, the pigsties as an
L-shaped plan in front; the shippon adjoining at lower level
to left of barns and with the implement shed in front of the
left-hand side.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey barns and shippon, otherwise single storey.
Threshing barns have central 1st-floor threshing and winnowing
doorways. Shippon has ventilation holes under the eaves,
1st-floor loading doorway left of centre and 5 ground-floor
doorways plus 1 small window under loading doorway; pigsties
have 5 doorways and implement shed has 3-bay open front
carried on wooden posts. Many old ledged doors and some old
windows.
INTERIOR: has original floors and roof structures where
inspected. This is an unusually complete range of farm
buildings.

Listing NGR: SX5124651509

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26666125

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: West and the Weald: The 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)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)