Fardel Manor House

Heritage listing

Details SX 65 NW CORNWOOD FARDEL 11/37 23.4.82 Fardel Manor House including walls to north-west and south-west GV I Former manor house. Circa 15 possibly with earlier origins. Coursed granite, slate hung gables and slate roof with hipped and gabled ends. Consisting of hall with solar crosswing to south (right). Gabled 2-storeyed porch to left of hall. The service end to left (north) appears to have been reduced. Two storeys. Hall is now also 2-storeyed with hollow-chamfered stone mullion windows. The solar wing and porch have moulded 4-centred arch windows with 2 cusped lights, the solar window with transom. Two 4-centred arch light window to service end. Chamfered round-arched doorway to porch. Stone chimneystack over south end of hall and to side of porch. Interior: contains many interesting interior features. Floor and stack inserted in hall in circa late C16, the chimneypiece said to have been imported from a house in Barnstaple. The room over the hall has segmental vaulted plaster ceiling. Timber screen to screens passage. The solar wing now contains an early C18 staircase and coved ceiling with modillion cornice. Ground floor of solar has early C18 panelled room with C17 moulded plaster ceiling. First floor of solar has massive ogee moulded plaster cornice to ceiling. Including forecourt garden boundary wall to west and south-west. Stone rubble with granite monolith gate piers with ball finials, mounting block on west side and 4-centred arch doorway on south side. And wall immediately north of house, probably largely rebuilt but retaining wide chamfered 3-centred arch doorway. Fardel was a Saxon estate and a Domesday manor. Seat of the Raleighs from C14 until Carew Raleigh, son of Sir Walter, sold it to the Heles. Reference: WG Hoskins "A New Survey of England, De

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.