Blackdown Manor

Blackdown Manor is a house dating from the early 17th century, which was remodelled in the early to mid 19th century. It is timber-framed but largely rebuilt in sandstone ashlar, featuring low-pitched slate roofs with deep eaves and verges. The building has a rendered axial stack and a stone gable-end stack.

The house has an L-shaped plan. The southwest wing, which has a gable-end stack, retains some 17th-century timber-framing and contains the kitchen and entrance stairhall. The northeast wing, which includes the dining room and drawing room with an axial stack between, appears to have been almost entirely rebuilt around the 1830s during the remodelling.

The exterior is one storey with an attic and features asymmetrical elevations. The southeast front has a projecting gable-ended wing on the right with 19th-century 16-pane sash windows on the first floor and attic, and a 20th-century canted bay on the ground floor. The left wing has a 16-pane sash on the ground floor and a 2-light casement above, with a doorway in the angle that includes a later 19th-century sandstone porch. The northeast side has two bays, with a slightly advanced gable on the right, featuring 12-pane sashes and garden doors on the ground floor. The left garden door has a pilastered case, a glazed and panelled door, and an overlight with intersecting glazing bars. The rear northwest elevation has 2 and 3-light casements with glazing bars, a 20th-century replacement on the first floor right, and two narrow sashes on either side of a rendered lateral stack on the ground floor left.

Inside, the kitchen and the chamber above have chamfered cross-beams, exposed joists, and exposed storey-posts. The drawing room and the chamber above feature chamfered ceiling beams, with the drawing room having a large brick fireplace with an unchamfered timber lintel. The roof structure is from the 19th century. The interior joinery is largely from the early to mid-19th century and includes panelled doors and window shutters. The dining room ceiling has a reeded border, and there is a late 18th-century corner cupboard with fielded-panel doors. The staircase was replaced in the 20th century.