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Route 39 Academy, Steart Farm Bucks Cross, Bideford, Devon Historic Building Record Ref: 115060.02 January 2017 wessexarchaeology Route 39 Academy Steart Farm Bucks Cross, Bideford Devon Historic Building Record Prepared for: RPS Planning and Development Mallams Court 18 Milton Park Abingdon Oxfordshire OX14 4RP Prepared by: Wessex Archaeology Portway House Old Sarum Park Salisbury SP4 6EB www.wessexarch.co.uk January 2017 115060.02 © Wessex Archaeology Ltd 2017, all rights reserved Wessex Archaeology Ltd is a Registered Charity No. 287786 (England & Wales) and SC042630 (Scotland) Route 39 Academy, Steart Farm, Bucks Cross, Bideford, Devon Historic Building Record Quality Assurance Project Code 115060 Accession OASIS Code ref Planning 1/0126/2014/FULM Ordnance Survey 235648 122884 Application 1/0127/2014/LBC (OS) national grid Ref. reference (NGR) Version Status* Prepared by Checked and Approver’s Signature Date Approved By v01 I RAD MJR 2017.01.12 File: X:\PROJECTS\115060\reports\20160831_RAD_v01 v02 E RAD MJR 2017.01.17 File: X:\PROJECTS\115060\reports\20170111_MJR_v02 v03 E RAD MJR 2017.01.26 File: X:\PROJECTS\115060\reports\20170113_MJR_v03 File: File: * I = Internal Draft; E = External Draft; F = Final DISCLAIMER THE MATERIAL CONTAINED IN THIS REPORT WAS DESIGNED AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF A REPORT TO AN INDIVIDUAL CLIENT AND WAS PREPARED SOLELY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THAT CLIENT. 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Route 39 Academy, Steart Farm, Bucks Cross, Bideford, Devon Historic Building Record Route 39 Academy Steart Farm Bucks Cross, Bideford Devon Historic Building Record Contents Summary ........................................................................................................................................... vi Acknowledgements .......................................................................................................................... vii 1 INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................1 1.1 Project background .............................................................................................................. 1 1.2 Previous work ...................................................................................................................... 1 1.3 Site location and description ................................................................................................ 1 2 METHODOLOGY .................................................................................................................2 2.1 Aims ..................................................................................................................................... 2 2.2 Documentary research ......................................................................................................... 2 2.3 Photography ......................................................................................................................... 2 2.4 Survey and drawn record .....................................................................................................2 2.5 Site visit ................................................................................................................................ 3 3 HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT ...........................................................................................3 3.1 Sources ................................................................................................................................ 3 3.2 The origins of Steart Farm ................................................................................................... 4 3.3 Development of Steart Farm ................................................................................................4 3.4 The Rolle estate and its improvement under Mark Rolle .....................................................7 3.5 Improvements to transport infrastructure .............................................................................8 3.6 Agricultural context............................................................................................................... 8 4 BUILDING DESCRIPTIONS ................................................................................................9 4.1 Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 9 4.2 Building 1: Steart Farmhouse (Grade II Listed) .................................................................... 9 4.3 Building 3: open-fronted cart shed .....................................................................................15 4.4 Building 4: former farm range ............................................................................................. 16 4.5 Building 8: former farm range and horse-gin house ...........................................................18 4.6 Building 2: former barn ....................................................................................................... 21 5 DISCUSSION ..................................................................................................................... 22 5.1 North Devon architectural comparisons .............................................................................22 5.2 Reused pig iron lintel.......................................................................................................... 23 i Doc Ref: 115060.02 Route 39 Academy, Steart Farm, Bucks Cross, Bideford, Devon Historic Building Record 5.3 Steart Farm ........................................................................................................................ 24 6 STORAGE AND CURATION .............................................................................................27 6.1 Archive ............................................................................................................................... 27 6.2 Copyright ............................................................................................................................ 27 6.3 Security Copy ..................................................................................................................... 27 7 REFERENCES...................................................................................................................28 7.1 Bibliography ....................................................................................................................... 28 7.2 Cartographic sources ......................................................................................................... 28 7.3 Online sources ................................................................................................................... 30 APPENDIX 1 ...................................................................................................................... 32 Steart Farm listing description............................................................................................32 APPENDIX 2 ...................................................................................................................... 33 1997 Plans and elevations of the shippon at Steart Farm (Buildings 4 and 8) .................. 33 APPENDIX 3 ...................................................................................................................... 34 Photographs from South-west Archaeology report (February 2015) of Building 2 ............. 34 APPENDIX 4 ...................................................................................................................... 35 Figs 38-45a from Heritage Vision report (May 2015) .........................................................35 LIST OF FIGURES AND PLATES Figures Figure 1 Site location and building locations Figure 2 Historic map regression 2A: 1840 Parkham Parish Tithe Map 2B: 1886 OS Map 2C: 1905 OS Map 2D: 1954-56 OS Map 2E: 1981-84 OS Map Figure 3 Building 1 Steart Farmhouse, annotated ground floor plan Figure 4 Building 1 Steart Farmhouse, annotated first floor plan Figure 5 Building 1 Steart Farmhouse, cross sections A and B Figure 6 Building 1 Steart Farmhouse, north and south facing elevations Figure 7 Building 1 Steart Farmhouse, east and west facing elevations Figure 8 Building 3 open fronted cart shed, plan and elevations Figure 9 Building 4 former farm range, annotated ground floor plan and cross sections ii Doc Ref: 115060.02 Route 39 Academy, Steart Farm, Bucks Cross, Bideford, Devon Historic Building Record Figure 10 Building 4 former farm range, north and south facing elevations Figure 11 Building 4 former farm range, east and