BERRY BARTON BERRY BARTON FARMHOUSE BERRY MANOR HOUSE

BERRY BARTON

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1324896
Date first listed:: 09-Feb-1961
List Entry Name:: BERRY BARTON BERRY BARTON FARMHOUSE BERRY MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address:: BERRY BARTON

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Date:: 2001-06-30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1324896
Date first listed:: 09-Feb-1961
Date of most recent amendment:: 21-May-1985
List Entry Name:: BERRY BARTON BERRY BARTON FARMHOUSE BERRY MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BERRY BARTON
Statutory Address 2:: BERRY BARTON FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 3:: BERRY MANOR HOUSE

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:: BERRY BARTON
Statutory Address:: BERRY BARTON FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: BERRY MANOR HOUSE

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

County:: Devon
District:: South Hams (District Authority)
Parish:: Berry Pomeroy
National Grid Reference:: SX 82903 61039

Details

SX 8261 BERRY POMEROY

11/17 Berry Manor House, Berry Barton Farmhouse and Berry Barton (formerly listed as Berry House) 9.2.61 GV II

Manor house with ranges on four sides of a courtyard, now three separate houses situated immediately north of the Church of St Mary. Berry Manor House situated on south and east sides, circa C16/C17 remodelled in C18 and early C19. Rendered stone rubble. Slate roof with gabled ends and overhanging bracketed eaves. Roof at right hand (north-east) end is lower and hipped. Two storeys. Six window range to south. Moulded stone mullion three-light windows with hoodmoulds and leaded panes. The ground floor windows have been replaced in C18 by large sashes, also with hoodmoulds. Right hand fielded panel door with rectangular fanlight and C19 wooden trellis porch. Rendered ridge chimney stacks. Long wing at rear to north-east forming L-shaped plan with large rendered external chimney stack on east side with stair projection to right hand side and doorway on left hand side with old leaded casement above. Berry Barton Farmhouse adjoins north and forms third side of the yard. Circa C17, rendered stone rubble, steeply pitched slate roof with hipped corner, two storeys, long five-window range with various casements. Rendered ridge chimney stack and external stairs to loft door. Berry Barton adjoining west forms fourth side of the quadrangle. Circa C17, remodelled in late C19. Rendered stone steeply pitched concrete tile roof with gabled ends. Two storeys. Four-window range. C19 casements. Ground floor late C19 splayed bays and late C19 porch at centre. Two-light hollow-chamfered granite mullion window at rear facing yard. Rendered ridge stack off centre and stacks at gable ends. Later gabled wing to left hand at front. Interior of Berry Manor House has large C16 granite chimney piece in centre ground floor room on rear wall with two orders of roll-moulded ogee arches and two granite doorways with roll-moulded four-centred heads and carved spandrels. C17 wainscot panelling in centre and west end rooms. C18 lean-to pasage at rear with moulded cornice. The staircase is Victorian. Berry Manor House was the rectory before the Reformation and used by the Priors of Moreton to whom the church belonged. At the Reformation it passed to the Dukes of Somerset and after the destruction of the Seymour Mansion inside Berry Pomeroy Castle q.v. it reputedly became the Dower House of the Seymours.

Listing NGR: SX8288261053

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Legacy System:: LBS

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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.