The Manor Hall
THE MANOR HALL, BIRDSWELL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1306870
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1965
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor Hall
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANOR HALL, BIRDSWELL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1306870
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1965
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MANOR HALL, BIRDSWELL LANE
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:
- THE MANOR HALL, BIRDSWELL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Berrynarbor
- National Grid Reference:
- SS5599746747
Details
SS 54 NE
1/42
25.2.65
BERRYNARBOR
BIRDSWELL LANE, (east side)
Berrynarbor
The Manor Hall
GV
II
Former manor house, acquired for parish rooms and hall in 1947. Manor house circa
1480, extended in 1914 with C20 alterations. Original manor wing of ashlar, top
courses above string in brick, with ashlar dressings. Slate roof hipped at left
end, gable end to right. C20 wing of random stone rubble with gable-ended slate
roof.
Plan: Manor wing with single large rooms on each floor, formerly heated by
demolished stack to centre of rear wall, with C20 staircase at right end and outshut
to rear. C20 parish hall at right angles forming overall L-shape replaced the
former entrance wing and 2-storey porch in the angle, which were demolished in 1889,
the porch and some of the internal fittings being re-erected at Westaways, West
Pilton (q.v.).
Manor wing 2 storeys. Parish hall, single storey. Manor house wing has 2-window
range of 4-centred arched 4-light mullions, cavetto moulded and with Bassett
initials to the labels of the continuous hoodmoulds. Left-hand window has small-
paned casements. 2 ground floor windows have identical architraves, labelled
hoodmoulds and relieving arches, but mullions replaced in C20. The left-hand
window had been blocked up and a door inserted, but in mid C20 a new doorway was
punched through at the right end and the window reinstated. Above the right hand
window is a square stone inset and traces of a similar lozenge to left, which
formerly contained coats of arms. To the rear, above the outshut are 2 cavetto
mullion windows of three 4-centred arched lights.
Single storey parish hall has two 3-light transomed windows flanking porch with
gable-ended slate roof.
Interior of manor house wing largely altered in C20, but late C15 plain chamfered 4-
centred arched doorway survives to rear right-hand wall to ground floor, and a flat-
arched stone chimneypiece with ogee-flanking hollow-moulded surround and herringbone
slates to the back of the hearth to the upper storey.
Listing NGR: SS5599746747
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 97017
- 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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