Description

SS 21 SW MORWENSTOW

3/69 Eastaway
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GV II

House, formerly manor house. Early C19 house incorporating part of late C17 build
at rear. C19 house stuccoed stone; late C17 build cob. Slate roof, brick gable
end chimneys. Double depth plan with entrance into corridor leading to stairs to
rear. 2 rooms wide, front rooms early C19, rear right room part of C17 build. 2
storeys. Symmetrical 5-window front with central porch of Roman Doric columns and
responds with entablature, frieze decorated with triglyphs. Ground floor windows
timber sashes 2 panes above 4. 5 similar first floor windows. 6-panel front door
with fielded panels. Ground floor corridor paved with white marble. Ground floor
room front left has original marble fireplace and panelled shutters, cornice and
panelling to walls late C20. Ground floor room right has original marble
fireplace, round-headed recess in rear wall, ornamental plaster border to ceiling,
panelled shutters. 6-panel doors to ground floor rooms. Early C19 stair with
turned balusters and ramped moulded handrail. Ground floor room rear right has 3
axial beams with ovolo mouldings and runout stops, some cross beams renewed. Large
fireplace with replaced fireplace beam and cloam oven. First floor rooms have wide
2-panel doors. Wall adjoining front left has 4 blocked round-headed arches. Cart
entrance adjoining right gable end has chamber above and may have been C17 entrance
to inner courtyard. Late C19/early C20 greenhouse adjoining right gable end with
lean-to roof against cart entrance. Eastway Manor was annexed by the Duchy of
Cornwall after the dissolution of Launceston Priory, Rev. F.C.Hamlyn, A History of
Morwenstowe after the Restoration (1930).

Listing NGR: SS2129313677

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26567697

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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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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)