Ogbeare Hall

Ogbeare Hall is a country house, now used as a home for the elderly. The core of the house dates back to the 15th century, representing the surviving portion of a much larger medieval house. It has undergone extensive restoration and is largely encased within a substantial late 19th-century house. The original 15th-century hall faces east and is constructed from stone rubble with granite dressings and a slate roof with gabled ends. A lateral stack rises from the front wall, featuring set-offs and a moulded granite cap. A large four-light window with elliptically arched lights, a hollow chamfer, roll-moulded king mullion, and a hood mould with carved stops is situated to the right of the stack. To the left of the stack is a tall two-light window with roll-moulded elliptically arched lights and a hood mould with carved stops. A similar window is above a screen passage doorway on the left, with a moulded elliptical outer arch, a hood mould, and a four-centred inner arch with carved spandrels and a tympanum featuring an armorial device. The hall is enclosed on its north, south, and west sides by a late 19th-century Gothic-style house, characterized by two storeys, stone mullion windows, and a three-storeyed tower with a pyramidal roof. An angled entrance porch features a chamfered Tudor arch. A service wing of the late 19th-century house, located to the west, has been demolished. The interior of the hall features a rebuilt roof that incorporates reused carved arch braces, a wall plate, and carved bosses to intersecting wind bracing. A jettied gallery extends over the screen passage, supported by carved bressumer joists. The screen itself is constructed from reused timber with carved running foliage, and the joists supporting the gallery over the screen passage are similarly carved. A large granite fireplace on the hall's front wall has a moulded elliptical arch, carved foliage spandrels, and a frieze of sunken quatrefoils above. Leonard Love (died 1576), treasurer for Cornwall and Devon to Elizabeth I, resided at Ogbeare Hall in the late 16th century. A memorial brass to him is located in the Church of St Denis, North Tamerton, referenced in Kelly's Directory of 1883.