Pencorse Manor

Heritage listing

Details ST ENODER SW 85 NE 11/311 Pencorse Manor (formerly listed as Pencorse House) 7.1.52 II Farmhouse, now house. Probably late C16 - early C17; remodelled in C18 and C19, with the left end removed and replaced circa early - mid C19. Some C20 alterations. Granite rubble with some granite ashlar and granite dressings. The front slope of the roof is in scantle slate, the rest slate; the roof is hipped, with end stack to right with rubble shaft and shaped top. Plan: L-shaped on plan; 3-room plan front range with a rear wing of one-room plan to right. The room to right is all that remains of a formerly larger house. The room to right is heated from a stack at the right end, and appears to have had a passage at the left end, probably divided by a screen partition. In circa early C18, a stair was inserted to rear right of this room, and the left end rebuilt. A rear wing of one-room plan was added to rear right. In circa early - mid C19, an addition was made at the left end. This is of 2-room plan, with one room to front and one to rear, and with a staircase at the inner side; this formed a garden front at the left side. Exterior: The front is 2-storey, asymmetrical, with the bays of the earlier building slightly advanced to right, in granite ashlar. In the bays to right, there is a C19 round-arched 2-light casement with hood mould remaining above from a formerly larger window aperture. An ovolo-moulded granite jamb remains, the C19 window being deeper than the C17 window. There is a single light remaining of a chamfered granite window to left, with ovolo-moulded surround and truncated hood mould. At first floor there is a C20 12-pane sash. To left is a studded plank door with cambered arch and dripstone, set in moulded wooden frame; this may be in the position of the origi

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.