Verbeer Manor House
VERBEER MANOR HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169274
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Verbeer Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- VERBEER MANOR HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169274
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Verbeer Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- VERBEER MANOR HOUSE
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:
- VERBEER MANOR HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Willand
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 03053 09607
Details
WILLAND ST 00 NW 5/271 Verbeer Manor House 5.4.66 - II Hotel, formerly a substantial house. Circa early C16 with late C16 alterations (reset datestone, 1598), with additions of the 1790s. Stone and cob, plastered, under hipped and gabled end slate roof. To a 16 3-room, though passage house has been added a late C18 symmetrical single-depth 5-bay block. Access from one to the other was by way of the front door of the former through-passage, but the interiors of both have been much modified in the conversion to a large bar space. 2-storeys (1) the late C18 house presents the main front (facing south-west). 2:1:2 bays, the middle bay projecting slightly and with separate pediment; below this a first floor Venetian window, with hornless sashes, 4:12:4 panes; porch, with pediment and entabalature on 2 Tuscan columns, the sides glazed above, panelled below, panelled reveals, the door glazed above, panelled below. The porch is approached by 3 steps. Side bays with 12-pane hornless sash windows. Hipped roof, rear internal stacks. (2) the late C16 house forms a parallel staggered rear range projecting to right. Hall and parlour heated by external front lateral stacks, that to the hall partially dismantled, that to the parlour with tall brick shafts, 2 pairs of set offs. Left- hand end stack to service end. 2 and 3-light C19 casement windows to front, first floor, above a large flat-roofed extension in the angle with C18 addition, with C20 sash windows with glazing bars, and French windows. Rear with some barred casement windows, but with numerous extensions and alterations of the C20. Interior: hall of late C16 house has intersecting chamfered ceiling beams; fireplace with chamfered lintel; inner room (the beams are recent insertions) fireplace with continuous ovolo-moulded stone jambs and lintel; higher end passage screen now removed to end wall of inner room: stud and panel construction, but with 2 tiers of panels, the studs fluted, with a cornice, with fluted panels, the uprights with roundels and intertwined heart motifs. Lower end fireplace with chamfered lintel, step-stopped. Roof: of 2 builds, the lower end the older and possibly lightly smoke-blackened with 2 upper crucks, morticed and pegged, and cranked collars, trenched purlins; the 3 higher end trusses, halved and pegged at apex, upper collars with half dovetails; trenched purlins, and (at the higher end bay) a pair of wind braces. The datestone (1598), formerly external, has been reset internally.
Listing NGR: ST0305309607
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 95457
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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