Qualla: Ditsworthy Warren House https://qualla.com/ditsworthy-warren-house en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/p/ditsworthy-warren-house-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Ditsworthy Warren House https://qualla.com/ditsworthy-warren-house Ditsworthy Warren House: Introduction https://qualla.com/ditsworthy-warren-house/ Photo credit Guy Wareham, CC BY-SA 2.0. Rick Carter, the production designer for War Horse, spent months looking for the right place. When his location scouts finally led him onto the southwest edge of Dartmoor in 2010, he knew. "Finally in Dartmoor," he said later, "we found a derelict building in the middle of nowhere that we brought back to life. It had 360-degree views, which give it a sense of being part of something huge and imposing - the expanse of skies, the force of the elements - and that created a beauty beyond what we had hoped for." The building was Ditsworthy Warren House, a Grade II listed granite cottage above the upper Plym valley near Sheepstor, and it had been waiting in the middle of nowhere for several hundred years already.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/p/ditsworthy-warren-house-wp/gbvp-ditsworthy-warren-house-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ditsworthy Warren House: A House for the Warrener https://qualla.com/ditsworthy-warren-house/ Photo credit Guy Wareham, CC BY-SA 2.0. Ditsworthy is a warren house - a building constructed for the keeper of an artificial rabbit warren, in an age when rabbit meat and fur were valuable enough to justify hiring someone to live out on the moor and tend the colony. The warren itself comprises 53 pillow mounds, each a...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/p/ditsworthy-warren-house-wp/gbvp-ditsworthy-warren-house-a-house-for-the-warrener.mp3 0:06 2 full Ditsworthy Warren House: Granite Rubble and a Late Wing https://qualla.com/ditsworthy-warren-house/ Photo credit Guy Wareham, CC BY-SA 2.0. The walls are built of granite rubble pulled from the surrounding moor, the kind of stone that simply lies on the surface in any sufficient quantity here. Patches of external render still cling to the stonework; most has weathered away. The original roofing would have been stone ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/p/ditsworthy-warren-house-wp/gbvp-ditsworthy-warren-house-granite-rubble-and-a-late-wing.mp3 0:06 3 full Ditsworthy Warren House: Leased to the Admiralty https://qualla.com/ditsworthy-warren-house/ Photo credit Guy Wareham, CC BY-SA 2.0. Long after the warren itself fell out of use, the house found a new role. The British Armed Forces train across large stretches of Dartmoor - the moor's emptiness and unforgiving weather make it ideal for what soldiers need to learn - and Ditsworthy Warren House is leased by the ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/p/ditsworthy-warren-house-wp/gbvp-ditsworthy-warren-house-leased-to-the-admiralty.mp3 0:06 4 full Ditsworthy Warren House: Spielberg on the Moor https://qualla.com/ditsworthy-warren-house/ Photo credit Guy Wareham, CC BY-SA 2.0. In August 2010 a film crew arrived. Steven Spielberg was adapting Michael Morpurgo's novel about Joey, the Devon farm horse sold to the army at the outbreak of the First World War, and he had chosen Ditsworthy to play the Narracott family farmhouse. The crew thatched the granite ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/b/v/p/ditsworthy-warren-house-wp/gbvp-ditsworthy-warren-house-spielberg-on-the-moor.mp3 0:06 5 full Ditsworthy Warren House: After the Cameras https://qualla.com/ditsworthy-warren-house/ Photo credit Guy Wareham, CC BY-SA 2.0. The thatch is long gone. The cruck barn has been dismantled. The cottage sits as it did before the trucks rolled in, weather-stained granite under a stone-tiled roof, surrounded by the pillow mounds of the old warren and the empty bowl of the Plym valley. People who walk out to i...

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