Kentisbeare House

Kentisbeare House is a detached house, formerly the parsonage for Kentisbeare, built in 1841 to the designs of James Thomas Knowles, senior, and enlarged in 1855. The building is constructed of rendered stone and features a hipped slate roof with deeply overhanging eaves. It has a central staircase and a double-depth plan, with the principal rooms facing south to the right of the main entrance hall, while the service rooms are located to the left. The rear addition, opposite the entrance front, includes two main rooms on the ground floor and three rooms above, with paired internal lateral stacks.

The entrance front is symmetrical with a three-window range, featuring 12-pane hornless sash windows on the first floor and small two-light horned sash windows flanking the central doorway, which has an entablature with a modillion cornice and plain pilasters. A plat band extends around the entire building. The garden front, facing southwest, is also symmetrical with a four-window range, again with 12-pane hornless sash windows on both floors. The 1855 extension to the right is set back from the garden front, revealing part of the southeast wall of the older range, which has a round-headed ground floor window and a 20th-century casement window above. The extension itself features a slightly asymmetrical three-window southeast front with 12-pane sash windows.