Description

SANCREED TREGONEBRIS
SW 42 NW
5/308 Tregonebris Old Manor House,
- including front garden walls, gate-
piers and gate
GV II
Farmhouse including front garden gate-piers and gate. C17, remodelled in the C18,
extended slightly in the C19. Granite rubble walls with granite moorstone dressings
except for granite ashlar added in the C18 to part of the front. Scantle slate roofs
with gable ends. Original or C18 dressed granite chimneys over the gable ends at
either side of the front. C19 3 stage external granite chimney over the rear gable
end of the rear wing. Granite kneeler stone (reused C17 sill or head of window at
rear of left-hand gable.
Plan: 3 room L-shaped plan extended in the C19 with an outshut in the angle behind
the left-hand side of the house and by a single-storey fuel store behind the original
wing which is behind the right-hand room (original hall/kitchen).
Exterior: 2 storeys. Nearly symmetrical 3 window south front with C18 openings, C19
4-panel door with top panels later glazed and C20 6-pane horned sashes. Four C17
chamfered granite window opening survive in situ: in left-hand gable end first floor
(blocked); first floor opening at either side of rear wing and a complete window,
with central mullion, behind the present stair in the original back wall (now
partition wall).
Interior: Large granite fireplace in right-hand room probably remodelled in the C18
to provide a bread oven behind each jamb and retaining the original hollow-chamfered
and stopped lintel. Floors and joinery are C19 or C20.
Rubble garden wall adjoins left-hand side of front and return following the line of
the road to farm buildings at the left of the front garden. C19 pyramidally-headed
granite monolithic gate-piers, simple C19 wrought-iron gate with ogee-arched and
scroll-headed top rail.

Listing NGR: SW4165928297

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26436681

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)