Fardel Manor House Including Walls To North West And South West

Fardel Manor House, which includes the walls to the north-west and south-west, is a former manor house dating from around the 15th century, possibly with earlier origins. It is constructed of coursed granite with slate hung gables and a slate roof featuring both hipped and gabled ends. The building consists of a hall with a solar crosswing to the south (right) and a gabled two-storey porch to the left of the hall. The service end to the left (north) appears to have been reduced. The hall is now two storeys high and features hollow-chamfered stone mullion windows. The solar wing and porch have moulded four-centred arch windows with two cusped lights, and the solar window includes a transom. There are two four-centred arch light windows on the service end, and a chamfered round-arched doorway leads to the porch. Stone chimneystacks are located over the south end of the hall and beside the porch.

Inside, the manor contains many interesting features. A floor and stack were inserted in the hall in the late 16th century, and the chimneypiece is said to have been imported from a house in Barnstaple. The room above the hall has a segmental vaulted plaster ceiling, and there is a timber screen to the screens passage. The solar wing now features an early 18th-century staircase and a coved ceiling with a modillion cornice. The ground floor of the solar has an early 18th-century panelled room with a 17th-century moulded plaster ceiling, while the first floor boasts a massive ogee moulded plaster cornice.

The property includes a forecourt garden boundary wall to the west and south-west, made of stone rubble with granite monolith gate piers topped with ball finials, a mounting block on the west side, and a four-centred arch doorway on the south side. There is also a wall immediately north of the house, which has likely been largely rebuilt but retains a wide chamfered three-centred arch doorway. Fardel was originally a Saxon estate and a manor recorded in the Domesday Book. It served as the seat of the Raleigh family from the 14th century until Carew Raleigh, the son of Sir Walter Raleigh, sold it to the Heles family.