Ebbingford Manor

Manor house, now residential dwelling. Late 16th century, remodelled in 1758, with 19th century addition and alterations. The building comprises a main range of ashlar masonry with stone rubble wings and granite dressings, beneath a slate roof with scantle slate to the south wing. The north and south wings are hipped at their east ends. A massive chamfered axial stack rises from the centre, with a massive projecting moulded stack at the east end of the north wing; other chimneys are of local brick.

The plan is H-shaped, with the east-facing main range flanked by wings to north and south. The main range is single depth with entry into a stair hall, probably a former through passage. To the left lies a heated room that may have been a late 16th century hall, with a parlour to the right of the passage and a kitchen, with a wing projecting from the front at the north. The south wing may be a later addition. A second passage known as "the slype" runs to the rear of what was probably the former hall; this was converted into a small chapel in the early 20th century.

The building is two storeys with an asymmetrical façade of one plus six windows. The main entrance is through a moulded granite arched doorway into the stair hall, with a further entrance to the slype through another moulded granite arched doorway. A ground floor window in the south wing is a 20th century two-light transomed casement. Left of the main range is a 20th century window lighting the slype chapel, set under a granite lintel. To the right of the slype door is a three-light hollow-chamfered granite mullioned window beneath a hoodmould. A further ground floor opening to the right of the front door has a square ovolo-moulded granite surround. Three ground floor windows on the front right are 12-pane hornless sashes with wide glazing bars; the rightmost is late 20th century, replacing a former doorway, while the other two sashes probably date from 1758, marked by a datestone.

First floor fenestration includes a 12-pane sash in a wing, a one-light 20th century casement with moulded granite surround in a full gabled dormer to the left of the main range, and a similar stone mullioned window in a raking dormer rising slightly above the eaves line. To the right of the front door, a first floor window has moulded granite lintel, jambs and sill with a six-pane 20th century casement. Three further windows on the front right are 12-pane sashes in full gabled dormers, probably dating from 1758.

The former parlour contains a 20th century granite fireplace with restored panelling, and a massive chamfered cross beam with wide stops and axial beams. An early 19th century stair features stick balusters. The roof trusses of the main range have massive principals with two tiers of threaded purlins.

The house is recorded in the pipe roll for 1194–5 and passed to the Arundells of Trerice in 1433. Richard Carew described it as "a pleasant-seated house and domains". The estate was eventually inherited by the Aclands in 1802, though they did not reside there; the house was partly tenanted by Colonel Wrey I'ans, whose daughter Charlotte married the Reverend R S Hawker of Morwenstow. The house served as Bude Vicarage between 1761 and 1953, when Sir Dudley Stamp and Canon Walter Prest exchanged their Bude houses.