Denbury Manor

Heritage listing

Details SX 86 NW TORBRYAN SOUTH STREET Denbury Village 4/45 - Denbury Manor GV II Large house. Late C17 or Cl8 (but basically probably an earlier structure). Remodelled in 'Tudor' style in early or mid C19 and again in a mixture of C15 and C16 styles for Walter Septimus Curtis between 1912 and 1914. Stone rubble, rendered on south side. Slated roofs with lead ridges and hips. Built round four sides of a narrow courtyard with the best rooms on the south and west sides; the north side (where the main entrance now is) occupied by the kitchen before 1912. Two storey with half-storey in south range. South front, in a romantic early or mid C19 'Tudor' style, is 6 windows wide, the left-hand window in ground and second storeys of five mullioned-and-transomed lights with small panes, set in a gabled projection. 4-window centre-piece has windows with tall mullioned-and-transomed wood casements and hood moulds in ground and second storeys; two dormer gables with wood casements and hood-moulds above. Right-hand window of ground and second storeys flanked by massive square pillars with decorative tops (now reduced in height), and having sections of mock-battlement peeping out from behind them. Second-storey windows canted oriel with moulded base; above it a large dormer gable like those in centrepiece. West front (the original entrance) abuts the two- window side-elevation of south range to right. It consists of a 4-window section to left, with 6-pane barred sashes in all but the two left-hand ground-storey window which have C20 wood casements. To right, a 2-window projection with hipped roof, the windows all C20 mullioned-and-transomed wood casements. To left an older doorway with two-centred arch. North front has large C20 projection in centre with 'Tudor' doorway and diamond lea

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.