The Old Manor Inn

The Old Manor Inn is a public house located on Old Torquay Road in Paignton, dating from the mid-17th century or earlier. The building features a rendered mass wall and a thatched roof with a plain ridge, hipped at the left end of the left wing and gabled at the right end. The right-hand block serves as the principal range and has a single-depth three-room plan with a rear outshut. The two right-hand rooms are heated by a right-end and axial stack, while the left-hand end has a rear left lateral stack. The left-hand wing, which may have originally been a service or stable building, is now used as a bar and restaurant. It is roofed on the same axis and partly overlaps the original building at the front, heated by likely 20th-century stacks at the left end and on the front. There is also a flat-roofed 20th-century addition to the rear.

The main range is two storeys tall, while the left wing is single-storey. The front elevation is asymmetrical with two windows on the left and three on the right. The main block has a recessed part-glazed door to the right of centre, featuring small panes above a low panel. There are three ground-floor and three first-floor timber windows with 20th-century leaded panes. The left wing has an entrance on the right return with a wide doorway and a 20th-century timber door with a two-panel overlight. To the left, there is a large two-light top-hung timber window. The front elevation of the wing includes a large doorway on the right with shallow brick cheeks and a two-leaf timber door with an overlight featuring glazing bars. To the left of this doorway, there are two three-light windows with attractive casements from around the 1840s, each light containing a central vertical band of diamond panes with margin panes.

The interior has been partly inspected. The right-hand room of the main range showcases well-crafted 17th-century chamfered scroll-stopped cross beams. There are remains of a bread oven associated with the fireplace in the central room. The roof has not been inspected but may also hold interest. The Old Manor Inn is part of a group of pre-19th-century vernacular buildings in Preston.