Farmbuildings Forming The Farmyard And To The North West Of Beara Farmhouse

SX 47 NW MILTON ABBOT

10/195 Farmbuildings forming the farmyard - and to the north west of Beara Farmhouse

GV II

Farmbuildings forming a small planned farmyard. Probably 1856 and contemporary with Beara Farmhouse (qv) but incorporating a circa C19 threshing barn. Designed for the Bedford Estate. Stone rubble with slate roofs, the masonry of the barn incorporating large pieces of local quartz. The north range is 2-storey and consists of a threshing barn with an open-fronted shelter shed with loft over adjoining at the right, engine house adjoining at the rear. A loft entrance in the barn under a canopy carried on brackets is linked at first floor level to what was probably a fattening house which projects into the centre of the yard. Stone walls form a foldyard to the right of the fattening house which has splayed corners and a cart entrance to gain access to the rear of the stalls. The south range consists of a calf-house or shippon with 3 entrances and an adjoining carthouse. The west range consists of 1 single-storey building and 1 small building with loft over. The north side of the farmyard is formed by a largely rebuilt stone rubble wall to the foldyard. A modestly-scaled but relatively unspoilt planned farmyard with an attractive barn in conjunction with its farmhouse. The 7th Duke of Bedford was a "devoted improver" (Spring) of the farms on the Tavistock Estate and his policies and practices are described in David Spring, The English Landed Estate in the Nineteenth Century (1963).

Listing NGR: SX4009376015