Dart Bridge Manor

BUCKFASTLEIGH

SX7466 DART BRIDGE ROAD 1011-1/7/25 (East side) 06/01/83 Dart Bridge Manor

GV II

Farmhouse, now used as guest house. Probably C16 or earlier with early C19 alterations and extensive late C20 renovations and changes. Local grey limestone rubble rear elevation stuccoed and blocked out; slate roof with sprocketed eaves, half-hipped at right end, gabled at left end; end and rear lateral stacks with rendered shafts and moulded cornices. Plan: formerly a 3-room and through-passage plan, lower end to the right. C19 staircase built in passage, partition between 2 left-hand rooms removed; first-floor partitions altered and new roof put on in late C20. Moulded arches on the front wall, formerly concealed behind render, are probably C16 or earlier in date. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front. Plank and cover strip front door to right of centre. To left of the door, 2 arches in the masonry, above later windows, are of interest. One is moulded volcanic trap, the other, possibly the remains of a doorway, is chamfered. 3 ground-floor windows to left of the door, one to right where there is also evidence of a blocked doorway to the cross passage and a blocked window. First floor has three C17 two-light mullioned windows, the 2 to the left preserving original diamond-leaded panes. 2-light stair window with geometric leaded panes. 4 hipped roof dormers with C20 casements. Rear elevation, facing garden, preserves more of a C19 appearance, the left end is a 3-bay arrangement with a somewhat altered flat-roofed porch with Chinese Chippendale panels and 2 ground and 3 first-floor casements with glazing bars. To the right a C20 service door to the kitchen and one first-floor casement; 4 flat-roofed C20 dormer windows. INTERIOR: very altered with new timber and partitions. Axial ceiling beams flanking the cross passage have step nick and step stops. C19 stick baluster stair; some C19 joinery. Roof timbers said to have been replaced in the late C19, one principal rafter showing upstairs appears to be C17 or C18.

Listing NGR: SX7444966643