Blachford Including Service Wing and Stables to East is a Grade II* listed building in the Dartmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 March 1960. A C18 House. 2 related planning applications.

Blachford Including Service Wing and Stables to East

WRENN ID
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Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Dartmoor National Park
Constituency
South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 March 1960
Type
House
Address
Blachford Including Service Wing and Stables to East, Cornwood, South Hams, PL21 9QX
OS grid reference
SX 612 599
Coordinates
50.42303, -3.95468
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Blachford, including the service wing and stables to the east, is a large house located in a landscaped park. It has origins dating back to the 16th century, although it was largely rebuilt in the 18th century, with some alterations and additions made in the early 19th century. The building is constructed of granite rubble with dressed granite quoins and features a slate hipped roof behind a rendered parapet with a moulded cornice. The house has a half H-shaped plan with wings at the rear and is two storeys tall with an attic.

The front facade consists of 2:5:2 bays, with the projecting end two bays being early 19th-century additions. The right-hand first-floor bay is blind. Most of the sash windows have glazing bars and are set within moulded architraves with cornices. The central doorway is flanked by stone pilasters and features an entablature and a fielded panel door, topped by an early 19th-century Tuscan porch. At the rear, there is a gabled section that is slate hung between the wings.

The service wing and stables to the east are set back and have an L-shaped plan. They are built of granite ashlar and have a steeply pitched hipped slate roof. This structure is two storeys high and features five by five bays of sash windows, along with a wooden ballcote over the roof. A large moulded granite 4-centred arch doorway with carved spandrels and a hoodmould has been reset in the east end wall. Inside the stables, there are 18th-century arcaded stalls.

The interior of the main house includes an 18th-century staircase in a large open well with balusters and carved tread ends. The drawing room features a modillion cornice and frieze. Although the remainder of the house has not been inspected, it appears that much of the 18th-century joinery is intact. Blachford is noted as a Domesday manor and became the seat of the Rogers family. According to W.G. Hoskins in "A New Survey of England, Devon," the house was rebuilt in the 17th century.

Local climate

Blachford Including Service Wing and Stables to East receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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