Milking Parlour Approximately 35 Metres South-West Of Yardworhty Farmhouse

SX 68 NE CHAGFORD

3/87 Milking Parlour approximately - 35 metres south-west of Yardworthy Farmhouse GV II

Milking parlour and cart store, former Dartmoor longhouse. C16 or C17. Roughly coursed granite stone rubble with large dressed quoins and some other large blocks; disused granite stack; corrugated iron roof (formerly thatch). Plan: originally a 3-room-and-through-passage plan Dartmoor longhouse facing south. It is built down a hillslope with the inner room end (left/west) terraced into the slope. Now hall and inner room have been knocked together and are used as a cartshed. The hall has a large disused stack backing onto the former passage. The rear door of the passage is now blocked and passage and shippon have been knocked together as a milking parlour. It is now open to the roof throughout although parts at least were probably 2 storeys in the C17. Exterior: on the south front only 1 slit window remains in the shippon near the right end. The front passage doorway is slightly right of centre and it now contains a late C19 door. Alongside to right the original cow door is blocked and includes a small slit window. To left of the doorway is a blocked hall window. Roof is hipped to left and half (really three-quarter)-hipped to right. In the right end wall there is the shippon drain hole, dung hatch and hayloft loading hatch, and a C20 inserted window. The rear wall of the hall and inner room has been removed to create the large cartshed doorway. Interior: the division between hall and inner room has been removed although the front wall has what seems to be the stub of a stone rubble partition up to first floor level. The chimneybreast and lintel of the large granite ashlar hall fireplace has been demolished. The lower passage screen has also been removed and the milking parlour fittings are C20 (although the original shippon drain appears to have been reused). The only old carpentry detail are the unfinished crossbeams in the shippon which once carried the hayloft. Roof of various A-frame trusses; the earliest are C18 with pegged lap-jointed collars.

Listing NGR: SX6786185130