Verbeer Manor House

WILLAND ST 00 NW 5/271 Verbeer Manor House 5.4.66 - II Hotel, formerly a substantial house. Circa early C16 with late C16 alterations (reset datestone, 1598), with additions of the 1790s. Stone and cob, plastered, under hipped and gabled end slate roof. To a 16 3-room, though passage house has been added a late C18 symmetrical single-depth 5-bay block. Access from one to the other was by way of the front door of the former through-passage, but the interiors of both have been much modified in the conversion to a large bar space. 2-storeys (1) the late C18 house presents the main front (facing south-west). 2:1:2 bays, the middle bay projecting slightly and with separate pediment; below this a first floor Venetian window, with hornless sashes, 4:12:4 panes; porch, with pediment and entabalature on 2 Tuscan columns, the sides glazed above, panelled below, panelled reveals, the door glazed above, panelled below. The porch is approached by 3 steps. Side bays with 12-pane hornless sash windows. Hipped roof, rear internal stacks. (2) the late C16 house forms a parallel staggered rear range projecting to right. Hall and parlour heated by external front lateral stacks, that to the hall partially dismantled, that to the parlour with tall brick shafts, 2 pairs of set offs. Left- hand end stack to service end. 2 and 3-light C19 casement windows to front, first floor, above a large flat-roofed extension in the angle with C18 addition, with C20 sash windows with glazing bars, and French windows. Rear with some barred casement windows, but with numerous extensions and alterations of the C20. Interior: hall of late C16 house has intersecting chamfered ceiling beams; fireplace with chamfered lintel; inner room (the beams are recent insertions) fireplace with continuous ovolo-moulded stone jambs and lintel; higher end passage screen now removed to end wall of inner room: stud and panel construction, but with 2 tiers of panels, the studs fluted, with a cornice, with fluted panels, the uprights with roundels and intertwined heart motifs. Lower end fireplace with chamfered lintel, step-stopped. Roof: of 2 builds, the lower end the older and possibly lightly smoke-blackened with 2 upper crucks, morticed and pegged, and cranked collars, trenched purlins; the 3 higher end trusses, halved and pegged at apex, upper collars with half dovetails; trenched purlins, and (at the higher end bay) a pair of wind braces. The datestone (1598), formerly external, has been reset internally.

Listing NGR: ST0305309607