Teigncombe Manor

Heritage listing

Details This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23 November 2023 to amend date of listing and to reformat the text to current standards SX 68 NE 3/74 CHAGFORD Teigncombe Manor 20.2.52 GV II House, former Dartmoor longhouse. Probably C16 with C17 improvements, refurbished in mid C20. Granite stone rubble with large dressed granite quoins; granite stacks with ashlar chimney shafts; slate roof (formerly thatch). Plan and development: former longhouse facing north-east and built down a slight slope. It had a three-room-and-through-passage plan with the inner room at the uphill (northwestern) end. The inner room has a projecting end stack and the hall has an axial stack backing onto site of former passage. A newel stair turret to rear of the hall has been adapted to a rear porch. The former passage and shippon have been rebuilt. The passage has been enlarged to large entrance hall with stair. Rest of shippon converted to domestic use and given an end stack. Mid C20 service extension projecting at right angles to rear of inner room. Since the interior was unavailable for inspection there is no attempt to define development of the house. Two storeys. Exterior: irregular five-window front. The two-window section to the hall and inner room (the right end) is C17 with granite frames, chamfered mullions and hoodmoulds to those on the ground floor. However, in the mid C20 the lights were enlarged and the mullions renewed. The original three-light windows were made two-lights and the four-light hall window was made three-lights. A little left of centre is the front doorway of the former passage. It still contains the original large oak round-headed doorframe but it has now been converted to a window. This is flanked by projecting stone walls which carry the roof down as

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.