Blagdon Manor

Heritage listing

Details SX86SE 1947-1/2/124 PAIGNTON TOTNES ROAD (North side) Blagdon Manor 13/05/51 II* Shown on OS map as Blagdon Barton. Manor house, now in use as clubhouse and bar for caravan site. C15 origins with later alterations. MATERIALS: Local red breccia rubble, part rendered, part colourwashed; slate roof with early crested ridge tiles; stacks with red breccia shafts. PLAN: Courtyard plan, the south range containing the hall heated from a rear lateral stack with an entrance at the right end and opposed rear door. Inner room to left heated from end stack. Left end room now partly under roofline of east wing, which has been very altered internally and was probably re-windowed in the C18, with puzzling position of fireplace on the party wall with the hall. Hall range extended to rear to incorporate axial passage and stair (replaced in late C20). North range heated from east end stack may have functioned as a kitchen on the ground floor (massive blocked fireplace) but has high quality room on the first floor. Courtyard partly infilled with C20 buildings. EXTERIOR: two storeys. Asymmetrical 1:3:2-window front south front. Hall block in the centre with deep coved eaves; one-window block set back at left end; porch block to right slightly broken forward with tall parapet with cornice, crowned by brick bellcote. Two three-light transomed moulded stone hall windows with square-headed hoodmoulds with label stops and datestone of 1567; two-light inner room window to left, glazed with paired sashes with C20 leaded panes. Two two-light first-floor windows with C20 casements with square leaded panes. The porch block has a C16 pilastered segmental-headed stone doorway to the former passage to the left with a moulded keyblock and moulded spandrels. Two-leaf C20 half-glazed door. Fine, la

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.