Mearsdon Manor

Heritage listing

Details MORETONHAMPSTEAD CROSS STREET (south side), SX 7586 Moretonhampstead 8/116 No. 32, Mearsdon Manor - 23.8.55 GV II* House, now in use as tea room and shop with private accommodation on first floor and at rear. Probably late C15 or early C16, altered later in C16 and early C17, remodelled in circa mid C19 and extended circa early C20. Roughcast granite rubble. Gable-ended roof with interlocking clay tiles, crested ridge tiles and projecting eaves. Axial ridge stacks; left-hand former higher end stack has rendered brick shaft; right-hand lower room stack, granite with tapered cap. Large granite ashlar lateral hall stack projecting to right of centre with chamfered plinth, moulded cornice and tapered shaft. 3-room-and-through-passage plan, originally open to the roof over the hall and higher end, which were divided by low screens. It was probably open to the roof at lower end also but as there is only one surviving original truss, which is over the higher end of the hall, the development of the lower is conjectural. The inner room was floored later in C16 creating a first floor chamber and it seems likely that the lower end was floored at the same time. The next phase was the flooring of the hall, probably in early C17 when the front lateral hall stack was built and possibly the lower room stack with an oven was also inserted at this time in the unusual position at the higher end of the lower room backing onto the passage. The stack at the higher end was probably built when the chamber over the inner room was created. Later in the C17 the house was extended at the higher end where in C19 a carriageway was put through. In circa mid C19 the front was entirely refenestrated. In circa early C20 an extension containing a staircase at the back of the lower end and a large

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.