Clanacombe

Clanacombe is a manor house dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, which was extended in the 19th century and modernized in the late 20th century. The building features coursed and roughly dressed slatestone walls and a gabled slate roof. There are three rubble stacks on the front range, one axial stack, and one at each gable end, as well as one on the central rear gable and an axial stack to a single-storey rear wing.

The house has a slightly unusual three-room-and-through-passage plan. The larger room is to the left of the passage, with a smaller room to the right, both heated by fireplaces in the end wall. At the far right end, there is a very narrow room, and at the rear of the passage, there is another heated room in a short wing. In front of the passage, there is a full-height porch. Significant internal alterations have occurred, resulting in the removal of the passage and the creation of one large room on the left side of the house. A series of complex additions were made behind this left-hand end at various stages up to the early 20th century, including an entrance stair hall. A single-storey service wing extends to the rear of the left-hand end.

The exterior is three storeys high and features a symmetrical five-window front with small gables over each top storey window and a central three-storey porch. There is a stone eaves cornice and plinth. The windows are all late 20th-century casements with two, three, and four lights, and single top-opening lights in the top storey. The porch has a round-headed South Hams arched doorway with glazed late 20th-century doors behind it. There is a circa late 19th-century conservatory at the right-hand end of the house. In the left-hand projection at the side, there is an ovolo-moulded wooden doorframe dated 1674. A stone garden wall extends from the left-hand end of the front wall, featuring another round arched doorway.

Inside, much of the interior has been altered in the late 20th century, but a simple late 17th-century moulded plaster ceiling with a circular garland is preserved in the room to the right of the porch.