Pitt House

Pitt House

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Going further on down Ford St we pass Cann's Yard, another off-street complex that once held cann's Wheelwright shop, and we come to Pitt House. This was a large Queen Anne farmhouse that has been gentrified with a Tuscan colonnade. There are sundry fine examples of granite stone troughs in the courtyard and like other houses of the period it used to have a dairy at the rear. It was once the home of Sir Thomas Bowring, who also ran the nearby Dartmoor Duck Farm. Despairing of good goose eggs and ducks in London, Sir Thomas set up his own farm in Moreton., and had his needs supplied by way of Great Western Railway. No trace of the farm remains today, apart from the advertising board which can be seen in the Infrmation centre, but it must have been sited near the lands occupied by Kinsmansdale.Sir Thomas Bowring made frequent stays at Pitt House towards the end of the nineteenth century.