Parsonage House

Parsonage House is a substantial detached house built in 1849 for the Reverend J L Fulford, designed by the Diocesan architect, John Hayward. The design incorporates materials salvaged from a medieval tithe barn and earlier parsonage. The house is constructed of snecked Salcombe Regis stone and sandstone, with some volcanite trap, and has a gabled-end slate roof. It is a double-depth plan house, with an entrance hall flanked by reception rooms, and the staircase located in the left-hand section of the rear range. There are external brick stacks, a left-hand end stack, and front and rear lateral stacks towards the right-hand end, each with paired offsets.

The front elevation has an irregular four-window range. All windows are square-headed with pointed and cusped lights; the first-floor windows are two- and three-lights, while the ground floor incorporates paired two-light windows on either side of the entrance, and a two-light window set into the external stack, all beneath hood moulds. A moulded arch features over the entrance. The left-hand end elevation has a two-light pointed window with transom lighting the stairwell, and a later single-light window to the front range. The right-hand side elevation has two three-light windows to the first floor, also with hood moulds, and three uncusped windows to the ground floor. The rear elevation has irregular fenestration utilizing recycled medieval windows from the old parsonage; it includes two two-light square-headed windows on each floor, each light pointed and cusped, alongside a small square single light window to the first floor, and a 20th-century window added to the ground floor. A slated lean-to is also present at the rear.

The interior retains contemporary joinery, including panelled doors and a dog-leg staircase; the main rooms feature an acanthus plaster cornice. There are painted glass initials within the head light tracery of some windows. Surviving documents include a sketch and rough plan of the medieval parsonage, held by the current occupant and featured in Ursula W Brighouse's 1981 publication, "Woodbury, A View from the Beacon." Records referencing the architect are held at the Devon Record Office as part of Faculty Petitions.