The Old Manor Including Barn Adjoining South And Courtyard Walls Attached To South East

This is a small medieval manor house, likely built in the late 14th century and probably constructed by Sir John Stretch, later taken over by Canonsleigh Priory in the 15th century. Since 1921 it has been a private house and was restored in the 20th century. The building is quadrangular, with a hall on the south-east side, accompanied by dairy and kitchen wings, and a wash-house and bakehouse or brewhouse range forming a small inner courtyard. To the south-east of the hall lies a walled outer yard containing a barn on the south-west side.

The hall range features a two-centred chamfered granite arch doorway leading to the screens passage to the left of the hall. A restored hall window to the right has mullions, a transom, and four-centred arch lights. A narrow slit window is situated to the side. The lower section of the hall is two-storied, with small chamfered wooden mullion windows of two and three lights, fitted with leaded panes. A circa 16th-century cross-mullioned and transomed window, with cinquefoil lights, faces the inner courtyard on the north-west side. A similar 15th-century window, without a transom, is positioned to the right of the screens passage, which has a flat-headed inner doorway. The former bakehouse or brewhouse range, on the north-west side of the courtyard, contains a wooden four-centred arch doorframe. Many windows have been replaced in the 20th century with chamfered wooden mullioned frames with leaded panes. Chimney stacks of stone rubble, featuring set-offs and slate caps, are at the gable ends of the hall range and over the kitchen.

The interior includes a two-bay open hall with an arched brace roof. The hall walls retain much of their original plaster, and a fresco depicting the Resurrection, dating from circa 1450-1500, is visible on the wall of the dais. The fireplace beneath is a 20th-century addition, replacing the original central hearth. A plank and muntin screen at the opposite end of the hall to the screens passage has timber studding and plastered infill. A stone four-centred arch doorway is found at the north-west corner of the hall, leading to a stone newel stair lit by loops to the inner court and hall, and ascending to the former solar. Two arched doorways are located on the south-west side of the screens passage, one leading to the buttery, and the other, above, to a room. A lean-to building adjoining the east side of the hall was likely originally a store.

The barn adjoining the south-west side, dating from circa 15th/16th century, has a thatched half-hipped roof, with non-original roof trusses. It features a central doorway with a massive wooden doorframe having an elliptical chamfered arch. The barn currently has 20th-century garage doors on the south-east end. Tall stone rubble walls enclose the forecourt to the south-east of the hall, originally a yard and now a garden.