Middleworth farmstead near Norsworthy Bridge

Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1020236) describes a farmstead on a south-facing terrace at Middleworth, above the Narrator Brook. It survives as drystone walls that show the farmhouse, outbuildings and paddocks. At the east end a barn still stands to its original height, but every other building has lost its upper levels. The farmhouse is a rectangular building with drystone walls up to 1.7 metres high and at least two window openings visible, 8.6 metres by 7.5 metres inside, with a bank running south from it that may mark a porch and an outshut on the east wall standing up to 1.5 metres high. It lies in the parish of Walkhampton, about 0.9 km west of Down Tor and 1.9 km north-east of Sheepstor.

East of the house is the barn, divided into at least five rooms. South of it is a small structure of four rooms, one of them a lavatory. In the south-west of the farmstead are three more barns and a paddock. The settlement at Middleworth is first recorded in 1281 and seems to have been lived in continuously until it was abandoned in the 1920s.

Sources: Historic England list entry 1020236, which cites Haynes, Ruined Sites on Dartmoor: Middleworth (1966, unpublished manuscript).

• Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1020236)
• Grid reference: SX 5716 6917 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)