Higher Manor

Heritage listing

Details PETER TAVY CUDLIPPTOWN SX 57 NW 9/82b Higher Manor - II House, originally longhouse. Circa early-mid C16, possibly extended in C17, altered in C19 and C20. Stone rubble walls, gable ended roof, slated to house, corrugated sheeting over former shippon. Rubble stack projecting from right gable end; rebuilt rendered axial stack. Plan: Originally longhouse with shippon at left end with through-passage, hall with newel stairs in projection at its rear and inner room to its right. Hall stack backs onto passage in customary longhouse position but there is evidence for a lateral fireplace at the rear of the hall which presumably was earlier - an unusual but not unknown feature for a longhouse. The equal size of hall and parlour and the length of the shippon suggest a remodelling of the building in the C17 and it is possible that the hall stack was moved at this time. The inner room became a heated parlour with an outshut built to its rear to accommodate service functions. At an indeterminate stage the rear door of the passage was blocked. In the C19 the house was turned into 2 1-room plan cottages each self-contained with new front doors made and the shippon entirely separated. The Cottages became unoccupied and the building reverted to agricultural use in the first half of the C20. Probably at this stage the newel stair turret was destroyed. In the late C20 it was converted back to one house with the plan much as it had been in the C17 although the shippon was adapted to semi-domestic use and an outshut built at the rear of the hall. The eaves were also considerably heightened. Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window front to house of C20 metal frame windows. C20 glazed door to right of centre into inner room. The shippon is to the left with a considerably lower roo

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.