Sortridge Manor

Heritage listing

Details HORRABRIDGE SX 56 NW 7/3 Sortridge Manor - 14.6.52 GV II* Manor house. Mid C16, front porch added C17, in early C18 remodelled internally and rear service wing added with later alterations including rebuilding at right return after some destruction by fire, probably late C19/early C20, with later alterations. Slatestone rubble, coursed with some granite, granite dressings, random rubble to sides and rear, some slatehanging; Welsh slate roof with C17-C18 handmade ridge tiles to rear, hipped to right, rendered battered ridge stacks and gable stack to left. Possibly originally of conventional 3 room and through passage plan with lower end to right and higher end to left, hall and inner room now incorporated as one. Made symmetrical in C17 and porch added to front of passage, possibly at this time a further unheated room added to lower end. In c. early C18, the passage was widened to form a stair hall, lower service end converted into a parlour and a service wing built at rear of original hall. Passage built at the rear of the hall and lower end to provide access. Irregular L-plan thus formed by accretion; symmetrical front. 2 storeys, 3:1:3 windows, central 2-storey gabled porch has round-headed opening with C19 half-glazed round-headed door with strap hinges, 3-light mullioned window above with hollow-chamfered and flat-faced mullions, metal-framed casements with glazing bars and C20 leaded lights, hood-mould, other front windows similar without hood- mould, moulded string course over door and carried over lintels of all ground floor windows; left and right side slate-hung above string course. Right and left, 3 similar 3-light mullioned windows at ground floor and 3 smaller of 3 lights at first floor, at cellar level to right 3 small 2-light mullioned windows with

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.