Fardel Manor House Including Walls to North West and South West
FARDEL MANOR HOUSE INCLUDING WALLS TO NORTH WEST AND SOUTH WEST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1162392
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Fardel Manor House Including Walls to North West and South West
- Statutory Address:
- FARDEL MANOR HOUSE INCLUDING WALLS TO NORTH WEST AND SOUTH WEST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1162392
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Fardel Manor House Including Walls to North West and South West
- Statutory Address 1:
- FARDEL MANOR HOUSE INCLUDING WALLS TO NORTH WEST AND SOUTH WEST
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FARDEL MANOR HOUSE INCLUDING WALLS TO NORTH WEST AND SOUTH WEST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cornwood
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 61214 57431
Details
SX 65 NW CORNWOOD FARDEL 11/37 23.4.82 Fardel Manor House including walls to north-west and south-west GV I
Former manor house. Circa 15 possibly with earlier origins. Coursed granite, slate hung gables and slate roof with hipped and gabled ends. Consisting of hall with solar crosswing to south (right). Gabled 2-storeyed porch to left of hall. The service end to left (north) appears to have been reduced. Two storeys. Hall is now also 2-storeyed with hollow-chamfered stone mullion windows. The solar wing and porch have moulded 4-centred arch windows with 2 cusped lights, the solar window with transom. Two 4-centred arch light window to service end. Chamfered round-arched doorway to porch. Stone chimneystack over south end of hall and to side of porch. Interior: contains many interesting interior features. Floor and stack inserted in hall in circa late C16, the chimneypiece said to have been imported from a house in Barnstaple. The room over the hall has segmental vaulted plaster ceiling. Timber screen to screens passage. The solar wing now contains an early C18 staircase and coved ceiling with modillion cornice. Ground floor of solar has early C18 panelled room with C17 moulded plaster ceiling. First floor of solar has massive ogee moulded plaster cornice to ceiling. Including forecourt garden boundary wall to west and south-west. Stone rubble with granite monolith gate piers with ball finials, mounting block on west side and 4-centred arch doorway on south side. And wall immediately north of house, probably largely rebuilt but retaining wide chamfered 3-centred arch doorway. Fardel was a Saxon estate and a Domesday manor. Seat of the Raleighs from C14 until Carew Raleigh, son of Sir Walter, sold it to the Heles. Reference: WG Hoskins "A New Survey of England, Devon" page 377.
Listing NGR: SX6121457431
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 99144
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hoskins, W G, A New Survey of England in Devon, (1972), 377
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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