Ditsworthy Warren House

• Parish: Sheepstor
• Grid reference: SX 58410 66278
• Designation: Grade II, Historic England list entry 1305697 (listed 15 April 1978)
• Warren: about 220 acres (1844 tithe map), over 50 buries
• Warrening ended: 1947
• Access: no vehicle access; land around the house is closed to the public

Ditsworthy Warren House was built for the keeper of the warren in the late 18th or early to mid 19th century, with a late 19th-century addition, in granite rubble with a felt-sheet roof and three stacks. Other sources say it contains earlier fabric. The warren is recorded about 1676, when it was leased to Edward Meade; the Maristow Estate paid for rebuilding and extension in 1824 to 1825; Nicholas Ware leased it from 1830, and warrening ended in 1947 on the death of Percy Ware. Crossing's Dartmoor Worker (1966 edition) calls it the largest warren on Dartmoor.

Around the house are two annexes, the Big Shed where rabbits were dressed, a carrion pool, three dog kennels in an oval enclosure, a grindstone and leat, a ruined barn and 14 vermin traps recorded by R. G. Haynes. After about 1815 Hentor Warren and Willings Walls Warren were worked from here until the 1930s. The pillow mounds are scheduled.

The house is leased to the Admiralty and used as a shelter on the Dartmoor Training Area, and was the Narracott farmhouse in the 2010 film War Horse.

Sources: Historic England list entry 1305697; Dartmoor Explorations, Ditsworthy Warren; Wikipedia, Ditsworthy Warren House; W. Crossing, Dartmoor Worker (1966 edition) p. 67; Historic England entries 1014477 and 1014467.