Chipley Manor, Including Courtyard Wall, 2 Gateways And Pair Of Gateposts And Quadrant Walls Adjoining On North West

Chipley Manor is a house formerly used as a farmhouse, probably dating from the 18th century but altered in the early or mid 19th century. The building is constructed with solid rendered walls, probably of stone, and has slated roofs with clay ridge-tiles; the left wing and verandah are tiled. The main block stands two storeys tall with garrets, while the wings are single-storeyed.

The south-east front elevation features three windows in the main block with one window in each wing. All windows are fitted with 6-paned sashes with margin-panes, many containing old glass. At the centre of the ground storey is a round-arched doorway with panelled reveals and a 6-panelled door topped with a fanlight featuring intersecting glazing-bars forming Gothic arches. The main block has raised cement quoins and a deep eaves-cornice. An open verandah, probably of late 19th-century date, stands in front of the ground storey, constructed on chamfered wood posts. The wings have tall parapets that conceal lean-to roofs. The gable-walls of the main block feature a 10-paned sash window in the second storey and a window with a pointed arch lighting the garret; the garret windows have glazing forming Gothic arches, representing a 20th-century replica of the original. Each gable ends with a parapet supporting a red brick chimneystack, and a rendered stack projects from the side-wall of the left wing.

The rear elevation to the north-west contains a segmental-headed window at each end of both ground and second storeys. These windows contain 18th-century wood casements with 4 mullioned-and-transomed lights in the ground storey and 3 mullioned lights in the second storey. The mullions have shallow mouldings and the lights contain 20th-century patterned leaded glazing. The centre bay features a projecting porch with a room over, probably a 19th-century addition. To its right, the ground storey has a verandah on moulded wood columns.

The interior contains a principal stair compartment with modillioned plaster cornices in both storeys and a floral plaster boss at the centre of the ceiling. The second-storey landing has a moulded round-arched doorway with panelled reveals. The wooden staircase is geometric with a handrail scrolled at the foot and ramped up over a newel at the top. The balusters are of curiously archaic turned form, typical of the early or mid 18th century, with square necking-pieces and shaped step-ends. The passage to the back door is paved with large stone slabs. The south-west front room in the ground storey features a moulded cornice and an enriched margin-band to the ceiling, with a wooden chimneypiece decorated with fluted pilasters and a festooned frieze. The upper-storey rooms were not inspected but are said not to contain features of great interest.

The house does not appear on the 2-inch Ordnance Survey map of 1803–4, though the staircase and some rear windows display features typically associated with the early or mid 18th century.

Behind the house is a courtyard enclosed on the north-west and south-west sides by a high stone rubble wall. Against the south-west wall stands a lean-to former stable block, remodelled in the 20th century. The north-west wall contains a carriage-gate with a segmental arch set in a slight projection; the arch and jambs are of dressed Devonian limestone. To the north-east of it is a small gateway with a curved granite lintel. To the south-west, outside the walled courtyard, is a separate entrance to the south-east front, featuring square ashlar gate piers with pyramidical tops set back and linked to the road by quadrant walls.