Stanbury Manor and Garden Wall About 6 Metres South of the South Front

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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Sources

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

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