Ellenglaze Manor

Ellenglaze Manor is a farmhouse, now a house, of probable mid to late 17th-century origin. It was substantially rebuilt and extended around the late 18th century, with a further addition circa 1820, and underwent later alterations and additions during the 19th and 20th centuries.

The building is constructed of stone rubble and cob, rendered, with a hipped slate roof fitted with ridge tiles. Chimneys with granite shafts rise at the left and right ends. The front right wing is built in squared stone rubble with its own hipped slate roof and ridge tiles.

The building's plan reveals its complex history. The remains of the original 17th-century house now form a rear wing to the right, consisting of a dairy at ground floor with a chamber above. Around the late 18th century, a double-depth addition was constructed at right angles to the left, featuring a central entrance with principal rooms to the front left and right, each heated from an end stack. A stair hall occupies the rear left with service rooms to the rear right, incorporating the 17th-century fragment. Circa 1820, a one-room addition was made to the right end, featuring a bow front projecting to the front right and connecting at the rear with the 17th-century range; this front room is heated by a back-to-back fireplace with the end stack. A 19th-century workshop or outshut was added to the left end of the 18th-century range, and a 19th-century stable with loft and dovecot was added to the rear right, behind the 17th-century range.

The front elevation presents two storeys with a symmetrical three-window arrangement, with the two-storey wing projecting to the right. The ground floor features two late 19th-century French windows with external shutters, and a central 18th-century six-panelled door with overlight and a pediment doorcase. The first floor has three 19th-century 16-pane sashes. The wing to the right is built into the bank on that side; its front has an early 19th-century 16-pane sash with Gothic glazing bars at the upper level. The right side of the wing shows a blocked window and a 20th-century two-light casement. At first-floor level to the left is a small early 19th-century single Gothic casement, and to the right a two-light 19th-century Gothic casement with lattice glazing.

The lower two-storey 17th-century wing to the right is set back. At ground floor it contains a two-light eight-pane casement and a recessed eight-pane window with granite jambs. At first floor there is a two-light six-pane 19th-century casement and a 17th-century three-light casement with wooden ovolo-moulded mullions fitted with leaded cames and iron stanchions, and a timber lintel. The roof of the 18th-century range extends over this wing in a hipped form.

Attached to the right is a two-storey stone rubble and cob range housing the 19th-century stable, roofed in asbestos slate with a 20th-century garage attached at the rear gable end. The inner side features a half-glazed 20th-century door with a cambered brick arch and a 20th-century two-light casement with timber lintel. The first floor has paired 19th-century eight-pane sashes and three rows of square pigeon holes for doves. The left end of the 18th-century range has a single-storey workshop lean-to with an eight-pane window with lapped glazing, a 19th-century 16-pane sash, and a 20th-century single light. The first floor has a four-pane window, a 19th-century 12-pane sash, and a 24-pane sash lighting the stair.

The rear of the main range features a four-pane sash and 12-pane sash at ground floor, with a 20th-century glazed door and 20-pane sash to the end right. The first floor has two 19th-century 12-pane sashes. A stable and coach house range is attached to the front left of the house; this is now a separate house and is not included in the listing.

The interior of the main front range was remodelled in the 19th century with good period features, including a straight stair to the left in the stair hall. The front right room at ground floor has a cupboard to the rear with a glazed door featuring Gothic glazing bars; the design matches a cupboard in Cubert Vicarage.

In the 17th-century range, the dairy at ground floor retains roughly hewn ceiling beams, a brick floor, and slate shelves. The ground floor level extends to the front as a cellar beneath the 1820 front wing. At first floor, the room above the dairy features an early 18th-century two-panelled door and a blocked end fireplace. This is the room containing the three-light ovolo-moulded casement; internally the mullions have flatter mouldings and there is a panelled window seat with bolection mouldings.