Manor House

MODBURY PALM CROSS GREEN SX 6451-6551 (east side) 7/153 Manor House

GV II

House, now in two parts, with Manor Cottage (qv) attached right. Possibly C16 and C17, much modified in C18 and C19. Rendered, slate roofs, some asbestos cement slate on back gabled wing, and one slate hung gable. This may have been a hall house, with 2-storey porch, but is now much changed and the plan indecipherable. Manor House also in two builds, to right is lower 2-storey unit with gabled porch returning forward on the right. To left, a 16-pane porch at each level, the upper as half-dormer to raking roof, to right, the porch has a 16-pane sash over an arched light with radial bars, probably part of the original door, and a small 4-pane light on the return at first floor. Left half, also 2 storeys has small single light and 16-pane sash at each level, the upper sash i raking half-dormer, and, to right, a C20 glazed door with hood opposite large rendered composite stack. Return, to Back Street, has one deep- set light, low in wall. The back has a gabled wing opposite porch, a second lower gabled arm to left of stack, and door under swept slate roof. various lights including sashes. Interior has moulded panel door within porch and ribbed plank door with strap hinges at back; cast iron pump, W. WROTH 1820, and granite trough. Tight staircase to upper floor which has part of a pank and panel screen, some C17 panelling, and cruck-like principals.

Listing NGR: SX6566051731