Tonacombe Manor

Heritage listing

Details SS 21 SW MORWENSTOW 3/81 Tonacombe Manor 26.9.51 GV I Manor house. Early C16 core, late C16 refurbishing, circa early C18 additions, C20 addition. Stone rubble with slate roofs with gable ends, polyphant and granite dressings, chimneys of local brick, some repaired with C19 or C20 brick. Complex development. The early C16 plan may have been a double courtyard plan with main range of 3 rooms and through passage with unheated room at lower end and open hall and heated parlour at higher end, hall heated by rear lateral stack, parlour by rear lateral stack. Some evidence of kitchen wing to rear of unheated lower end room. Second smaller parlour with solar above formerly reached by newel stair to rear of large parlour. A rear range, demolished in the C19, is said to have had heated rooms and may have been a service range, possibly contemporary with the main range. Parallel to the front of the main range is a narrow 2-storey south range with gatehouse, porter's lodge and service rooms, forming a narrow south courtyard at the front of the main range. This south range probably contemporary with the main range. Late C16 refurbishment of the interior. 2 parlours were added to the rear right of the main range, probably in the early C18, re-using some granite dressings from the earlier build. Walls surrounding the house on all sides, and forming a pleasaunce to the east; a carriageway to the south known as "the street", and a lower courtyard to the west are likely to be of C17 or earlier origins, although renovated in the C18 and C19, the C18 renovation probably incorporating materials from Stowe, dismantled circa 1739. In the C18 the kitchen wing was remodelled as part of a separate building to the rear left. C20 addition to the rear of the small parlour wing has roof with

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.