Helstone Manor

Heritage listing

Details CAMELFORD HELSTONE SX 08 SE 4/48 Helstone Manor - GV II Farmhouse. Circa early C17, possibly with earlier origins, remodelled in early C18 and in C19. Stone rubble, rendered on front. Rag slate roof with gable ends to front range, gable end to rear wing on left which is continued with a lower roof with hipped end to rear. To left the service range has been reduced in height and has a corrugated asbestos lean-to roof. Rendered end stacks to front, stone rubble gable end stack to left hand wing on rear and projecting stone rubble side lateral stack to continuation of rear wing. Plan altered and the original arrangement is uncertain: the house as existing comprises a 2 room and cross passage plan with lower range of 1 room plan on rear left forming an overall 'L' shaped plan. On left hand side of rear wing is a further range which extends to left comprising an unheated service room converted from a shippon in the last 40 years. The original plan is difficult to interpret and the house may have once been larger. The earlier house appears to have comprised the left hand room of the front range, the rear left hand wing, the reduced service range and a through passage between the rear wing and service range. The service range on left has been remodelled and reduced in height to a single storey and there is no evidence of a fireplace. The through passage, although remodelled, remains intact with a chamfered granite lintel to the front entrance. The range on right has been remodelled, the rear room heated by a side lateral stack and the front room apparently by an axial stack. In circa early C18 the house was remodelled, the front wing on left which had a gable end to the road, was extended to the right to form a front range of 2 room and cross passage plan, with an earl

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.