Chipley Manor, Including Courtyard Wall, 2 Gateways and Pair of Gateposts and Quadrant Walls Adjoining on North West

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BICKINGTON SX 87 SW 8/3 Chipley Manor, including - courtyard wall, 2 gateways and pair of gateposts and quadrant walls adjoining on north-west GV II

House, formerly a farmhouse. Probably C18, altered early or mid C19. Solid rendered walls, probably of stone. Slated roofs with clay ridge-tiles; left wing and verandah tiled. Parapet on each gable of main block with red brick chimneystack on top; rendered stack projecting from side-wall of left wing. Double-depth plan with 2 main rooms at the front flanking the principal stair compartment; back stair behind principal stair has 2 rooms to left and 1 (the kitchen) to right; further small rooms in wings at either end. Main block 2- storeyed with garrets; wings single-storeyed. 3-window main front to south-east, with 1 window in each wing. All the windows have 6-paned sashes with margin-panes, many of the panes with old glass. In centre of ground storey a round-arched doorway with panelled reveals; 6-panelled door with fanlight over, this having intersecting glazing-bars forming Gothic arches. Main block has raised cement quoins and deep eaves-cornice. In front of ground storey is an open verandah, probably late C19, on chamfered wood posts. Wings have tall parapets disguising lean-to roofs. Gable-walls of main block have 10-paned sash window in second storey and window with pointed arch lighting garret; the garret windows have glazing forming Gothic arches, a C20 replica of the original. Rear elevation to north-west has a segmental-headed window at each end of the ground and second storeys; those contain C18 wood casements of 4 mullioned-and-transomed in ground storey and 3 mullioned lights in second storey. The mullions have shallow mouldings and the lights contain C20 patterned leaded glazing. Centre bay has a projecting porch with room over, probably a C19 addition. To right of it in ground storey is a verandah on moulded wood columns. Behind the house is a courtyard enclosed on the north-west and south-west sides by a high stone rubble wall; against the south-west wall is a lean-to former stable block, remodelled in C20. The north-west wall contains a carriage-gate with segmental arch set in a slight projection; arch and jambs of dressed Devonian limestone. To the north-east of it is a small gateway with curved granite lintel. To the south-west of it, outside the walled courtyard, is a separate entrance to the south-east front; this has square ashlar gate piers with pyramidical tops, these being set back and linked to the road by quadrant walls. Interior: principal stair compartment has modillioned plaster cornices in both storeys and a floral plaster boss in the centre of the ceiling. Second-storey landing has moulded round-arched doorway with panelled reveals. Wooden geometric stair with handrail scrolled at the foot and ramped up over a newel at the top. Curiously archaic turned balusters of early or mid C18 type with square necking- pieces; shaped step-ends. Passage to back door paved with large stone slabs. South-west front room in ground storey has moulded cornice and enriched margin-band to ceiling. Wooden chimneypiece with fluted pilasters and festooned frieze. Upper-storey rooms not inspected; they are said not to contain features of great interest. The house does not appear on the 2-inch Ordnance Survey map of 1803-4, but the staircase and some of the rear windows have features usually associated with the early or mid C18. Source: information (on the map) from Mr L Keefe, Teignbridge District Council.

Listing NGR: SX8103372095

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