Dunstone Manor

Heritage listing

Details WIDECOMBE-IN- SX 77 NW THE-MOOR 2/162 Dunstone Manor GV II Formerly known as Dunstone Court. House, formerly a longhouse. Late medieval with minor additions, probably of C18 and C19. Granite rubble, covered with roughcast on south side. Asbestos-slated roof. On ridge, off-centre to east, a large rendered chimneystack with thatch weatherings (heating former hall); shaft rebuilt C20. Another rendered stack, also old and with stone weatherings, on upper (east) gable. C20 rendered stacks on west gable and in centre of south wall. 3-room and through-passage plan with hall stack backing on to passage; unusually large inner room with early fireplace. Former shippon, to west of passage, converted into 2 rooms; passage enlarged on this side to insert staircase. Added wing at right-angles to north side of inner room. 2 storeys, although the whole main range must have been single-storeyed originally. 5-window south front, facing garden; all windows C20. The front wall of hall and inner room breaks forward slightly and there is a further gabled projection (added perhaps in C18) in front of the hall. The ground-storey window of this projection has a chamfered granite dripstone above it. To right there is a similar dripstone over the inner-room window (possibly a former doorway) and, overlapping it to right, a further dripstone, probably relating to a blocked window. North front has a complete set of C20 plastic windows. Door to through-passage has a lean-to stone porch. West gable (of former shippon) is known to have had a ventilation slit in upper storey, now replaced by a window. Interior: through-passage is cobbled. Rear of hall stack is of painted granite ashlar with a worn chamfered plinth. Old plank door into hall. Latter has large fireplace with chamfered granite lint

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.