Dunnabridge Pound Farmhouse

Dunnabridge Pound Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around the late 16th century to early 17th century, with possible earlier origins and a 19th-century addition. The structure features granite rubble walls that include some very large blocks, topped with a gable-ended slate roof that has a catslide over the outshut at the rear. There are two gable end stacks made of roughly dressed granite blocks, with dripstones; the right-hand stack projects and has a granite cap.

The original plan likely included a longhouse, with the shippon at the left-hand (downhill) end now demolished and the through passage reduced to a lean-to. The hall fireplace backs onto the passage, with newel stairs located behind it, while the inner room is heated by a gable end fireplace. A C19 outshut has been added along the rear wall.

The exterior is two storeys high and features an asymmetrical front with three windows, which are late 20th-century 2-light casements. The stonework continues into a lean-to against the left-hand gable end, which has a 20th-century plank door at the front. The outshut extends along the rear wall almost to the right-hand end.

Inside, the hall fireplace has a massive roughly dressed granite lintel and a monolithic granite jamb to the left, with a stone bread oven on the right side fitting into the space below the adjoining stone newel stairs. There is also a heavy wany chamfered cross beam. The inner room fireplace is partly filled in and features a rough granite lintel.

Dunnabridge was one of the 17 Ancient Tenements of the Forest of Dartmoor, first mentioned in documents in 1305. This building is part of a traditional and unspoilt small moorland farm group.