Historic Buildings
Easdon Farmhouse
A grade II* listed farmhouse on the eastern edge of Dartmoor, likely medieval in origin with later additions.
Historic Buildings
Listed buildings and historic structures - churches, farmhouses, bridges, mills and the like.
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Historic Buildings
Electric Light Shed (remains)
Meldon, Okehampton
Crumbling stone foundations and weathered walls marking an ambitious attempt to bring electricity to remote Dartmoor.
Historic Buildings
Ensworthy
A Grade II* listed building on the eastern moor, likely a farmstead or small settlement with roots in medieval or early modern Dartmoor.
Historic Buildings
Erme Pits
Ivybridge
Scattered stone ruins of 19th-century tin and china clay workings on open moorland, revealing Dartmoor's industrial past.
Historic Buildings
Farm building, Hentor Farm
A post-medieval open-ended rectangular building 11.5 m by 3.5 m inside, walled with upright stones up to 1.2 m high, terraced into the slope just east of Hentor Farm.
Holy Wells & Springs
Fice's Well
A spring north of Princetown under a stone canopy with a lintel cut I.F. 1568, linked to John Fitz and the same pixie-mist story told at Okehampton.
Bridges & Crossings
Fingle Bridge
Drewsteignton, Exeter
A narrow early 17th century granite bridge over the River Teign in the Teign Gorge, below Castle Drogo, once the main road between Drewsteignton and Moretonhampstead. Grade II* listed.
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Former Guildhall, Tavistock
The former Guildhall and police station in Tavistock, Grade II*, about 1848 by John Foulston and then Theophilus Jones for the Duke of Bedford, built on the site of the abbey's Great Court and incorporating late 15th-century fabric.
Historic Buildings
Gate House
Medieval listed building on Dartmoor. Historic England list entry 1097177.
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Also on Our DartmoorWest Chapple Farmhouse — A Grade II* listed farmhouse on the edge of Dartmoor, likely dating from the medieval period and representative of the vernacular architecture that shaped the moor.
