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Historic England lists North Forder Farmhouse at Grade II* (list entry 1106127). It is a former Dartmoor longhouse of whitewashed granite rubble with large dressed quoins and a thatched roof, facing south-east and built down a steep slope.
It began as a three-room-and-through-passage house. The inner room at the south-west end is cut so far into the hillside that the eaves nearly touch the ground, and the shippon at the downhill end has been brought into domestic use. The house probably began as a late medieval open hall house. The roof is very low, which may mean a late medieval or at latest 17th-century roof structure.
The surveyors could not see inside. They called it a classic unmodernised example in an area with many farmhouses from the late 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, and said a thorough internal survey should be made before any alteration.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1106127 (listing grid reference SX 67102 89577).
- Period: Medieval
- Status: Listed building (Historic England list entry 1106127)
- Grid reference: SX 6710 8957 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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