Teign Manor

Teign Manor is a farmhouse, formerly a parsonage and dame school, situated in Teigngrace. It was later converted into three cottages as part of the Templer Estate (Hearders Cottages) and reconverted into a house in the 20th century. The building likely dates to the 16th century, with an early 17th-century rear wing and a late 19th-century wing at the lower end. It is constructed of roughcast stone with a Welsh slate roof and gabled ends. The original plan comprised three rooms and a through passage, although the inner room is missing and the passage is now blocked at the rear.

The early 17th-century kitchen wing is located at the rear of the lower end, while a late 19th-century wing projects at the front. A large lateral hall stack is positioned at the rear, featuring a heightened brick shaft and a round oven at the base. A gable end stack rises from the rear wing, also with a heightened brick shaft, and another stack is found in the rear corner of the lower end. Winder stairs project from the lower end of the hall into the rear kitchen wing.

The house is two storeys high with an asymmetrical three-window façade, featuring 20th-century casements with leaded panes in enlarged openings. The through passage doorway, positioned to the right of centre, has a 17th-century nine-panel door with studded details, chamfered stiles, and moulded rails. A 20th-century wooden porch with screen muntins reused as posts stands before it. A gabled wing projects to the left, displaying a blind gable end.

Internally, a section of the original plank and muntin screen on the lower side of the through passage remains, consisting of five planks and muntins, and chamfered jambs mark the doorway at the opposite end. The hall features deeply chamfered ceiling beams with step-stops and square section joists. A large hall fireplace has chamfered granite jambs and a reset chamfered granite lintel. The lower end room also has a chamfered ceiling beam. The rear kitchen contains a chamfered ceiling beam with step stops and a large, plain fireplace with plain stone jambs and a chamfered wooden lintel, also with step stops, and containing an oven. A chamfered cranked head doorframe leads to the winder stairs on the rear of the hall, with later wooden treads and a small square stair window. Another cranked head doorframe is situated at the head of the stairs, widened later at the base, while a third cranked head doorframe opens to a blocked stair turret at the rear of the room, positioned above the hall. A 17th-century ovolo moulded doorframe is found on the first floor of the main range. The roof space is inaccessible, but the roof structure is visible from the upper rooms, showcasing straight principals, large purlins, and possibly trenched construction. A jointed cruck truss survives at the lower end, along with another in the rear wing. During renovations, a coin dated 1521 was discovered within one of two small blocked windows on the first floor of the higher gable end.