A sheepfold comprising a circular stone faced bank with a southern entrance. There are beech trees on the bank and it is recorded as having been constructed shortly after March 1878 following the loss of many sheep in severe snowstorms (40 sheep at Larkbarrow in a single night). The circular enclosure comprises a stone faced bank, 18 metres in diameter and 1 metre high, with an entrance in its sheltered south side. The bank is surmounted by beech trees.
Age: moderate distinctive for 19th century Exmoor shepherding
Rarity: one of a number of sheepfolds / stells
Distinctive Design: distinctive but other examples of oval / round enclosures
Historical Association: Knight and named Scottish shepherds association and association with particular weather event
Evidential Value: not complex but otherwise poorly documented so physical remains are significant, not completely intact
Social Communal Value: landmark, visibility in open moor, distinctive outgrown trees on banks
Group Value: fairly isolated
Collective Value: one of a group of sheep folds or stells developed on the Knight Estate in the former Royal Forest
Strong association with the Knight estate