Binnerton Manor Farmhouse, Front Courtyard Walls and Adjoining Outbuilding

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SW 63 SW CROWAN

4/95 Binnerton Manor Farmhouse, front - courtyard walls and adjoining 15.1.70 outbuilding GV II

Former manor house, now farmhouse, including front courtyard walls and adjoining dovecote and outbuilding. Probably C17, remodelled and extended in the C18. Granite rubble walls, slate sills, wooden lintels. Wheat reed thatched T-plan roof with asbestos slate on the rear angle slopes, part of which sweeps lower over an outshut. C18 granite ashlar chimney over the left hand gable end, brick chimney over the gable end of the front of the cross wing, right, and stone rubble chimney over the rear gable of the cross wing. Now an overall L-shaped plan : a circa early-mid C18 2 rooms wide double-depth plan wing, left, and a cross wing, right, incorporating remains of a C17 or earlier house at the rear and remodelled or rebuilt at the front in the C18. The left hand wing contains the 2 principal C18 rooms, at the front, with originally a cross passage between parlour left and possibly another parlour right, with central stair and 2 shallow service rooms under rear outshut. Probably soon afterwards the house was divided into 2 houses, the cross wing, right, becoming a separate house with a stair hall between the front room (the present kitchen) and the rear room (now a parlour). In circa the late C18, the formerly symmetrical 5 window front of the left hand wing was remodelled, probably when converted back into one house. The right hand cross wing may have originally been a 3 room through passage plan house but was remodelled in the C18 probably with a small unheated service room between the present kitchen, front, and the stair; now all one room but some partition survives near the door, left. 2 storeys. Slightly irregular 4 window front with heightened eaves circa late C18 plus the gable end of a deep projecting wing on the right hand side of the front. Probably originally a nearly symmetrical 5 window front (see plan description). 3 of the original 1st floor openings survive unaltered, the 2 on the left with their original mid C18 16-pane 2-light casements with thick glazing bars and some original crown glass, the right hand opening with a circa late C18 12-pane horizontal sliding sash. Old horizontal sliding sashes also to the widened former doorway (12 + 12 panes) and the widened window over with 12 + 16 panes. The ground floor left hand window in an altered opening is a wide 28-pane hornless sash. Panelled door in former window opening right. The return, (left hand) courtyard facing, wall of the crosswing has a doorway towards the left with ledged door, wide 3-light casement over and a 12-pane 2-light casement at ground floor left. Taking the angles in front of both doorways is a circa late C19 lean-to open slate-roofed porch carried on wooden posts with arched bracing between and with a shaped bargeboard. The other side (east) of the wing overlooks a rectangular garden, possibly the former vegetable garden. Irregular disposition of windows: 12 pane casement in former doorway towards left and 16 pane hornless sash to kitchen right, otherwise later windows but the two 1st floor windows are in probably C18 openings blocked opening at ground floor right. Small slate roofed lean-to in front of the left hand side, and on the right hand side, the C17 walling of the kitchen adjoins an outbuilding, now roofless. Interior : In the parlour is a fine circa mid C18 plaster Rococo ceiling wih moulded cornice and carved arabesque decoration. The adjoining room, right, has C18 bowtell moulded beams. The main dog-leg stair is C19 with stick balusters but probably in the same position as the mid C18 stair which it replaces. Overall, an old interior essentially unaltered since the C19. Old roof structures not inspected but probably C18. A rectangular walled courtyard encloses the inner angle in front of the house. Against the left hand side is a lean-to; in the front left hand corner a 2-storey dovecote with a flight of stone steps to the 1st floor. In front of the dovecote projecting outside the courtyard is a 2 storey outbuilding possibly stabling with fodder storage over. The front wall of the courtyard has a dressed granite jambstone, chamfered with diagonal stops, reused but probably from the C17 house. The dovecote is of brick with a scantle slate roof and a brick chimney over the gable end, possibly used as a granary or for servants accommodation. There are 6 rows of pigeon holes in the gable end a row under the eaves. The outbuilding projecting in front of the dovecote is circa early C19, has rubble walls, some dressed granite moorstone and a scantle slate roof with gable ends. 2-cell rectangular plan, each cell with a doorway and small window in the left hand (west) wall and a small 1st floor window. At the rear the first floor is cob with an old shuttered 2-light wiindow left, and granite steps, right, leading to a circa late C19 inserted doorway with roof gable. There was formerly a chapel nearby and some dressed stone, including fragments of window tracery have been found, some of which are in a small garden near the entrance. It is reputed that John Wesley stayed here. Binnerton Manor is a picturesque farmhouse owing some of its charm to the way it has evolved; however, in spite the changes, there are notable features surviving from the early to mid C18 period including: 2 casement windows, an ashlar chimney and a fine parlour ceiling.

Listing NGR: SW6081433150

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