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STANBURY MANOR AND GARDEN WALL ABOUT 6 METRES SOUTH OF THE SOUTH FRONT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1231145
Date first listed:: 25-Sep-1951
List Entry Name:: STANBURY MANOR AND GARDEN WALL ABOUT 6 METRES SOUTH OF THE SOUTH FRONT
Statutory Address:: STANBURY MANOR AND GARDEN WALL ABOUT 6 METRES SOUTH OF THE SOUTH FRONT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1231145
Date first listed:: 25-Sep-1951
Date of most recent amendment:: 08-Sep-1985
List Entry Name:: STANBURY MANOR AND GARDEN WALL ABOUT 6 METRES SOUTH OF THE SOUTH FRONT
Statutory Address 1:: STANBURY MANOR AND GARDEN WALL ABOUT 6 METRES SOUTH OF THE SOUTH FRONT

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: STANBURY MANOR AND GARDEN WALL ABOUT 6 METRES SOUTH OF THE SOUTH FRONT

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Morwenstow
National Grid Reference:: SS2098913909

Details

SS 21 SW MORWENSTOW

3/79 Stanbury Manor and garden wall 26.9.51 about 6 metres south of the south front (formerly listed as Stanbury) GV II*

Farmhouse, formerly manor house. Late C16 and C17, some C18, some C20 alterations. late C16 build built for John Manning (q.v. Manning Monument, parish church) and Christian, his wife. Roughly-squared stone with polyphant and granite dressings. Slate roof hipped at ends, renewed 1970s. Stone chimneys, 2 with moulded caps. Present L plan likely to be 2 surviving ranges of former late C16 courtyard plan. Late C16 north range in 3 room and through passage plan with heated parlour and hall at higher end. The lower end room may have been the late C16 kitchen. Although the present room is unheated, disturbance to the east wall suggests rebuilding and the stack may have been dismantled. The length of the late C16 through passage suggests that the Manning build was L plan at least; numerous granite mullions and moulded stones in garden suggest a likely courtyard plan. Stair to rear of lower end and rear left kitchen wing probably part of late C17 remodelling. Porches at both north and south ends of through passage, main entrance through north porch, south porch forms inner entry from garden side. Projecting wing at rear left with gabled end contains late C17 kitchen. Second through passage runs east from south porch between late C17 kitchen and late C17 stair. Front right gabled projection contains remains of circa early C17 stair. 2 storeys. Long asymmetrical 2 window range of defensive appearance with projecting front lateral stacks to hall and parlour. 2 storey gabled porch. Stair projection on front at right. Porch has moulded, stopped, arched granite doorway under square-headed hoodmould with label stops carved with J.M. Ground floor window left 4-light hollow-chamfered stone mullioned window with King mullion, hoodmould and label stops. Leaded panes. 2 first-floor windows to left of porch : 2-light casements with leaded panes, one formerly a mullioned window with sill, jambs and lintel intact. First floor window in porch 3-light, hollow-chamfered, stone mullioned window. First floor window in stair projection C20. 2 stone ridge chimneys have moulded caps. South porch doorway similar to north porch doorway with Manning's initials in label stops. Inner doorway to north porch arched granite with label stops carved with J.M. and C.M. Interior. Unmoulded cross beams in through passage and hall, probably originally plastered. Hall has large moulded granite fireplace lintel carved with the names of John and Christian Manning, dated 1585. Parlour panelled throughout with bolection-moulded panelling, date of 1706 scratched on lintel above parlour door. C20 fireplace in parlour. Doorway from passage into lower end room has moulded jambs and complex stops. C17 kitchen has massive fireplace with fireplace beam. Chamfered, stopped stone doorway into rear stair, rear stair oak over stone. Stair in front projection dogleg with some C17 turned balusters, others C19 replacements. First floor has ovolo moulded and chamfered stopped doorways. 1 fireplace with ovolo-moulded lintel. Roof has trusses with collars lap-dovetailed into principals, and 2 tiers of threaded purlins, ridge and rafters replaced. 1 truss over lower end has collar probably morticed into principals which rest on a low chamfered beam in first floor room left. Roof widened to rear. Large moulded stone in garden may be plinth from large granite gateway. Stone rubble garden wall to south has moulded coping stones probably re-used from Stowe House, demolished 1739. The Manor of Stanbury is documented in 1296, and was the birthplace of John Stanbury who became Bishop of Hereford in 1453. The property passed to the Mannings in the C15. Polsue, A Complete Parochial History of Cornwall (1870), vol. III, p.383. '

Listing NGR: SS2098913909

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Legacy System number:: 64890
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Polsue, J, Lakes Parochial History of the County of Cornwall, (1872), 383

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.