Description

FORRABURY AND
SW 18 NW MINSTER

5/15 Holiday Cottages 5m to north west
of Worthyvale Manor (previously
17.12.62 listed as outbuildings at
Worthyvale Manor)
GV II
Outbuildings, original use uncertain, possibly rear wing of Worthyvale Manor (qv).
Converted into shippons, stables and coach house and then into holiday accommodation
Possibly circa late C16, remodelled in C19 and in late C20.
Slate stone rubble with granite dressings. Slate roof with gable ends. Rectangular
single depth plan with several straight joints on front and rear elevations
indicating considerable alterations. The partitions have been altered and several of
the C17 entrances and windows appear to have been reset. The coach house near the
centre of the range contains remains of an early C17 fireplace on the first floor.
Converted into a row of holiday cottages in the late C20.
Single storey elevation to courtyard with a symmetrical 7 window front. Circa late
C16/early C17 granite chamfered 3-centered arched entrances including entrance to
left of centre with initials CW in spandrels. (Christopher Worthyvale died in 1664).
3-light mullion windows, partly restored and late C16 3-light mullion window with
segmental arched openings. Two storey elevation on south west with C20 fenestration.
Interiors largely altered and remodelled. Remains of first floor fireplace in coach
house; chamfered timber lintel on renewed corbelled timber brackets with granite curb
stone.

Listing NGR: SX1074086031

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26613074

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback