1 North Wing, 2 North Wing, South Wing And West Wing, At St Ibbs

This is a large house, now divided into four residences, dating back to the 18th century. It was significantly altered and extended around 1786 when it was converted into a clergy house by Reverend Thomas Pinnock, with further changes made around 1801 by his successor, Reverend William Lax. A parallel rear range was added in the 19th century, and a red brick south wing, dated 1914 with a plaque on its east end, was constructed. The house was converted and subdivided again in 1965-70.

The main house is stuccoed to resemble ashlar, while the rear range and south wing are built of red brick. It has steep, hipped slate roofs, with a tiled roof to the south wing. The house is set back within its grounds and faces east, comprising two parallel ranges and a south wing extending west from the southwest corner. The symmetrical east front features a three-window-wide centre, a projecting central porch, and slightly projecting wings. Architectural details include a plat band above the ground floor windows, a plinth, a moulded cornice at eaves level below a parapet, and a plat band continuing around the single-storey central porch. The porch has a stuccoed, pillared Doric entrance with capitals shaped like an echinus, a reeded architrave, and triglyphs in the entablature. The windows are sash windows, originally with square heads on the ground floor, now with 2/2 panes, and Venetian windows to the wings with semi-circular central lights on the ground floor and segmental arched windows on the first floor. A six-panel fielded door leads to the house via three steps. A large, two-storey, semi-circular projecting bay with a garden entrance is located on the north side of the north wing.

The parallel rear wing has a dentilled cornice and sash windows with 6/6 panes and blind boxes to the first floor. A canted bay window is on the ground floor of the west end, and a similar two-storey bay on the north end. The south end of this rear wing has an entrance with a half-glazed door, a segmental radial fanlight, and a moulded hood on scrolled brackets.

It’s believed the house may have previously been a coaching inn, known as The Magpie or The White Swan, before its conversion into a clergy house in 1786.