Lurley Manor

TIVERTON

SS91SW LURLEY 848-1/4/93 Lurley Manor

GV II

Manor house. Late C15/early C16, remodelled C17. Rendered cob and some rubble; dry slate roof; large projecting front lateral stack right of porch. PLAN: original 3-room plan with central open hall; floored in the C17; rear winder stair projection and front porch also added in C17; lower end extended by 1-room plan which was further extended early C20, higher end and rear also extended early C20. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; irregular 3:1:3-window range. Old wide openings, most with early C20 iron windows, some early C20 wooden casements. Gabled 2-storey porch, left of centre, has C17 double-cavetto and ovolo-moulded oak doorway; original C16 inner doorway with cavetto and ovolo moulding and thistle stops; original 12-panel oak and iron studded door with some old inscriptions including: "William Hackworthy", in careful Roman lettering, and "Richard Crook 1897". INTERIOR: 3 original smoke-blackened jointed-cruck roof trusses, all with post sections missing except for one complete truss end next to porch, the complex carpentry construction at the opposite end of this truss the result of providing support to allow for the staircase; other trusses (at lower end) C17 with lapped and dovetailed collars. C17 features include: hall fireplace and parlour fireplace of dressed volcanic agglomerate stone; chamfered crossbeams and 3 oak doorways with Tudor arches, the original doorway between the hall and the parlour.

Listing NGR: SS9236614906