Coombe Royal Manor House (Residential Home)

A country house, now used as a residential home, likely dating from the late 17th or early 18th century, with substantial extensions and remodelling around 1870 and later 20th-century alterations. The house is built of coursed and dressed slate with Bathstone dressings, and has slate roofs with stone-coped gable ends. Axial stacks feature brick shafts, and the rear wing has a gable end and a truncated lateral stack. The layout is roughly T-shaped.

The circa 1870 front range, built in a Jacobean style, presents a two-room plan with a large hall on the right containing a staircase positioned in the rear right corner, and a drawing room to the left. This front range is a Victorian cross-wing addition to an earlier late 17th or early 18th century house, which forms the rear service wing.

The east front has an asymmetrical two-story and attic design with a three-bay gable. It features stone cross-mullion-transom windows, with attic windows set in gables. The gable on the right is larger and adorned with a ball finial. A substantial stone porch, with a moulded round arch supported by rusticated pilasters and panelled inner doors, is centrally placed. To the left, a gabled projection incorporates a large, two-story canted bay window with bracketed cornices and strapwork friezes. A similar single-story bay window is located on the left-hand gable, above which is a three-light stone mullion-transom window. The rear wing, the original portion of the house, has a symmetrical two-bay, one-bay, two-bay front facing south, with a central gabled projection. It features late 19th or 20th-century four-panel sash windows in rendered surrounds, a central round-arched doorway with a semi-circular fanlight featuring radiating glazing bars, and a flush panel door. Four late 19th or 20th-century gabled dormers are also present. At the rear (north) of the rear wing is a projecting truncated lateral stack to the left of centre, and a 20th-century single-story flat-roofed extension.

The interior of the circa 1870 front range includes a hall with an early 17th-century style rib-moulded ceiling, panelling, and an open-well staircase with twisted balusters. The drawing room features a moulded plaster ceiling in a Rococo style, a pedimented overdoor, and a chimney piece with Rococo decoration. The original late 17th or early 18th century rear wing has been considerably altered, with later partitions, an axial corridor through the centre, and Victorian joinery, including a staircase in the central hall. The original roof structure of the rear wing has been replaced.

A garden wall, dating from circa 1870 to the late 19th century, is constructed of slate with dressed slate arches, incorporating alternate courses of red brick stretchers and brick-on-edge. A large, free-standing wall features an arcade of chamfered four-centred arches of dressed slate, supported by buttresses with set-offs. A blind ninth bay is at the left end. The building is included for group value, reflecting its significance within the Rural District of Kingsbridge as recognized in a listing from 25 October 1951.