Penn Beacon enclosure and eleven hut circles above Ford Brook

Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1015428) describes 11 stone hut circles and a sub-circular enclosure on a south-east-facing slope above the valley of the Ford Brook, part of a larger hut circle settlement. Other huts and enclosures to the north-west, south-west and south-east have their own schedulings. It lies in the parish of Cornwood, about 1.1 km north of Rook Tor and 3 km north of Cornwood.

The enclosure is 60 metres by 55 metres inside, bounded by a double-faced rubble wall 3 metres wide and 0.5 metres high, with an entrance gap facing north-east. Two huts are built across its northern wall: the eastern is a hollow 5 metres across terraced into the slope, and the western has a faced wall 2 metres wide and 0.6 metres high round a space 6.3 metres across. The other nine lie outside. One is north of the enclosure, with a bank 1 metre wide and 0.8 metres high round a space 5 metres across. The other eight cluster south-west of it, with insides 4 to 7.3 metres across, averaging 5.61 metres, and walls 0.4 to 1.2 metres high, averaging 0.81 metres. Six of the huts have visible doorways.

Sources: Historic England list entry 1015428, which cites Gibson, Single Monument Class Description: Stone Hut Circles (1988), fieldwork for the Monuments Protection Programme by S. Gerrard, and a run of Devon County Sites and Monuments Register records (SX66SW264, 265, 266, 267, 274 and 275, among others).

• Period: Bronze Age
• Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1015428)
• Grid reference: SX 6050 6270 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)

Historic England listed designation: Enclosure and stone hut circles 600m ESE of Penn Beacon, forming part of a stone hut circle settlement