House Immediately To South Of Pizwell Cottage

This building is a longhouse located immediately to the south of Pizwell Cottage. It dates from the 17th century or earlier, likely with medieval origins, and has been altered and extended in the 19th century. The structure features granite rubble walls, which are rendered at the front. The house part has a gable-ended slate roof, while the shippon has a hipped corrugated iron roof. There are three axial stacks; the two on the left are from the 19th or 20th century and rendered, while the stack at the lower end of the house is a 17th-century granite rubble stack with a drip course and tapering cap, offset from the ridge.

The longhouse plan includes a shippon on the right and originally had a passage hall and inner room to the left. In the 19th century, the house was extended by one room at the higher end, and a new entrance was created into the former inner room. The passage was absorbed into the shippon, and an outbuilding was built in front of the lower end of the shippon.

The exterior is two storeys high with an asymmetrical four-window front featuring 20th-century two-light casements on the house part to the left. There is a gabled 19th-century porch to the left of centre with a stable-type door. The shippon on the right has a much lower roofline, and its door at the higher end was originally the entrance to the passage. A large outbuilding addition projects at right angles from the lower end of the shippon. The end wall of the shippon has three original slits on the first floor and one on the ground floor.

The interior of the shippon has been subdivided but remains in agricultural use. In the higher end, the granite ashlar back to the hall fireplace is visible. The interior of the house is inaccessible and has been significantly modernised, but it likely conceals original features such as fireplaces. Pizwell is one of the 17 Ancient Tenements of the Forest of Dartmoor, first mentioned in documents in 1260. This building is part of an important group of longhouses with unaltered shippons, forming a traditional moorland hamlet.