Restormel Manor

Heritage listing

Details LOSTWITHIEL SX 16 SW 4/54 Restormel Manor - II Farmhouse. Mid-late C17, with later stair tower, remodelled internally in early C18, with stair of mid C18; late C18 refronting, with C19 additions to rear left and rear right. Some later alterations. Slatestone rubble, rendered with granite dressings, slate-hung porch. Slate roofs, hipped over end 2 bays to left and right, with brick ridge stacks. The original house was probably of 3 rooms with through passage, with upper end to right and one room in the lower end to left; the porch may be original, with alterations during the refronting. 2 rooms to right heated by back to back fireplaces in an axial stack, the room to left possibly originally had gable end fireplace, extended in the refronting to 2 rooms to left, also heated by back to back fireplaces. The stair tower is to the rear right of the passage, and a new stair was inserted in the stair tower in the mid C18. Late C18 refronting and extensions to left made a symmetrical facade, with the end two bays to right and left slightly advanced. Probably at this time, a 2-storey wing was built to rear left, and in the mid C19, a passage was formed along the rear right, inside the original external wall, with access to service rooms along the rear right. 2 storeys, 2:2:1:2:2 bays, on granite plinth, with granite embattled parapet, end 2 bays left and right advanced, with central 3-storey slate-hung and embattled porch. The porch has 2-centred arched chamfered granite doorway, with studded double doors, with Gothic tracery toplights; granite piers with 4-centred arch. 12-pane sash with 4-centred arch over at first and 2nd floor. The rest of the front has 12-pane sashes at ground floor, at first floor inner bays to left and right of porch have 9-pane sashes set in 4-ce

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.