Whiddon Park Deer Park Wall is a Grade II* listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1987. Wall.
Whiddon Park Deer Park Wall
- WRENN ID
- heavy-gable-gorse
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dartmoor National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1987
- Type
- Wall
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
MORETONHAMPSTEAD
SX 78 NW 1/71A Whiddon Park Deer Park Wall
II*
Walls of deer park. Probably a medieval deer park, the walls may be medieval as well. Granite rubble, carefully built using large pieces of granite. The massive wall is very thick and stands up to 3 metres high in places. It is intact and there is a ditch on the inside of the wall. It encloses a deer park originally belonging to Whiddonpark House (qv) in Chagford parish where a section of the wall is separately listed:- 'Whiddon Park Deer Park Wall between SX 723889 and SX 722894' (qv). Whiddonpark House is a large late C16 to early C17 houlse and seat of the Whiddon family. The estate was bought by the Drewe family who built Castle Drogo (qv) in Drewsteignton parish.
Listing NGR: SX7272789341
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