Welltown Manor

Heritage listing

Details FORRABURY AND SX 09 SE MINSTER 1/13 Welltown Manor 19.1.52 II* House. Possibly circa early C16. Built for Tinke family who appear to have been of yeoman status. Slate stone rubble with some quartz. Bitumen coated rag slate roof with gable end on left and lean-to roof to range on right ; gabled 2 storey porch to right of centre. Gabled end to rear wing and gabled ends to parellel range on rear. Stone rubble stack on left hand gable end, stone rubble front lateral hall stack with round brick shaft in header bond. Stone rubble, possibly originally rear lateral stack, now axial stack incorporated in rear wing and stone rubble gable end stack to rear wing. Plan altered ; appears to have comprised a 3 room and through passage plan (lower end to right) with turreted stair to rear of higher side of hall, providing access to chamber above inner room and possibly above hall and turreted stair at lower side of passage serving chamber above service range. The thick stone wall between the hall and inner room continues to the apex and the thick stone wall at the lower side of the passage has been truncated above the first floor ceiling, probably when the service range was demolished. The ceiling beams above the hall, passage and inner room are identical in detail and the identical roof structure above the 2-bay inner room and 4-bay hall and passage appears to be clean although coated with a dark varnish. The exact arrangement of the early plan is uncertain although the 2 turreted stairs, the thick walls at higher and lower side of hall and passage and the low roof line could support the hypothesis for an open hall, always heated by the front lateral hall stack with chambers above the service end and inner room. Documents of the Tinke family dated 1610 only refer to bed chambe

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.