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The Cider Barn, Ruggadon Farm, Chudleigh, Devon Historic Building Recording |
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South West Archaeology Ltd. unpublished report series
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Abstract: |
A programme of Historic Building Recording (HBR) has been prepared by South West Archaeology Ltd. on behalf of a Private Client (the Client), ahead of the conversion of an existing barn at Ruggadon Farm, Chudleigh, Devon into additional recreational space. The late medieval cob-built barn is linked to a 16th Century Grade II Listed farmhouse via a post-medieval cider pound house (not part of this survey) and is Grade II Listed in its own right. The Listing text suggests that it was originally a threshing barn with 17th Century origins, converted to a cider barn in the 19th century. However, the survey shows that it had a roof of true or jointed crucks, stylistically datable to the mid-15th to mid-16th centuries, whose cut-down feet survive in part within the barn walls. The southern threshing door retains a heavy oak door-frame with 'Caernarfon arch' shouldered posts and is also typical of this date-range. When the barn was partly converted to contain a cider press in the later 19th century, its eaves height was reduced by at least 70cm, removing the evidence for the form of the cruck posts, but retaining their long feet within the wall fabric. |
Author: |
Robert Waterhouse
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Publisher: |
South West Archaeology Ltd.
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Other Person/Org: |
Historic England (OASIS Reviewer)
Devon Historic Environment Record (OASIS Reviewer)
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Year of Publication: |
2020
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Cider Barn, Ruggadon Farm |
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Devon |
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Teignbridge |
Parish: |
CHUDLEIGH |
Country: |
England |
Grid Reference: 285903, 81612 (Easting, Northing)
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southwes1-348889 |
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200323 |
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Created Date: |
16 Feb 2021 |