Basil Manor

Heritage listing

Details ST CLETHER SX 28 SW 4/171 Basil Manor - (formerly listed as Lower Basil Farmhouse) II* Large house. Probably early C16, remodelled and extended in late C16 and in C17 and restored and partly rebuilt in circa 1870s-1880s by J.P. St Aubyn. Stone rubble and roughly coursed and dressed stone, part with moulded granite plinth. Snecked stone to C19 rebuilding. Scantle slate roofs with gable ends. Rebuilt circa C17 stone ashlar and granite axial and end stacks. Plan: Courtyard plan: front range with gatehouse which has a wide passage directly opposite the main entrance to the house. The main range on west has what was originally probably a through passage which has been blocked to rear; thin reset partition on the higher right hand side and a thick wall containing a flue on the lower side. The hall to right is heated by a rear lateral stack, divided from the small unheated inner room beyond by a thick cross wall which continues up to the ceiling of the first floor. There is a one-room plan circa C17 wing to front of the inner room which is heated by an end stack and a second probably C17 wing to the rear of the inner room, heated by a side lateral stack. A third circa C17 wing was added to the end of the right of the inner room. This wing now contains a reset staircase although the position of the mullion window in the end wall would suggest that this wing was intended as a stair wing: however this would be an unusual position for a stair. Below the passage to left the partitions have been altered and the exact arrangement is uncertain. There are two rooms on the lower side and then a wing of two room plan which extends to front left, the two rooms sharing a central axial stack. There is a C19 semi-circular stair turret which projects into the courtyard. This turret an

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.