Description

MODBURY PALM CROSS GREEN
SX 6451-6551
(east side)
7/153
Manor House

GV II

House, now in two parts, with Manor Cottage (qv) attached right. Possibly C16
and C17, much modified in C18 and C19. Rendered, slate roofs, some asbestos
cement slate on back gabled wing, and one slate hung gable. This may have been
a hall house, with 2-storey porch, but is now much changed and the plan
indecipherable. Manor House also in two builds, to right is lower 2-storey unit
with gabled porch returning forward on the right. To left, a 16-pane porch at
each level, the upper as half-dormer to raking roof, to right, the porch has a
16-pane sash over an arched light with radial bars, probably part of the
original door, and a small 4-pane light on the return at first floor. Left
half, also 2 storeys has small single light and 16-pane sash at each level, the
upper sash i raking half-dormer, and, to right, a C20 glazed door with hood
opposite large rendered composite stack. Return, to Back Street, has one deep-
set light, low in wall. The back has a gabled wing opposite porch, a second
lower gabled arm to left of stack, and door under swept slate roof. various
lights including sashes. Interior has moulded panel door within porch and
ribbed plank door with strap hinges at back; cast iron pump, W. WROTH 1820, and
granite trough. Tight staircase to upper floor which has part of a pank and
panel screen, some C17 panelling, and cruck-like principals.

Listing NGR: SX6566051731

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26401864

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Recommended Books

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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)