Petticombe Manor

Petticombe Manor is a country house, now used as a house, built in 1805 and extended to the rear around 1870. The building features stucco over coursed slatestone rubble and has a hipped slate roof with rendered brick ridge and end stacks. It has a triple-depth plan, with later rear wings that enclose three sides of a yard at the back. Designed in the late Georgian style, the house is two storeys tall and has a 2:1:2 arrangement of windows with a projecting central bay. This central bay includes plain pilasters at the corners, a raised storey band, and a torus-moulded cornice leading to a plain parapet. Above the porch, which features a Greek Doric design with an entablature and paired columns in antis, there is a heraldic shield of a rampant red lion. The windows consist of flat arches over twelve-pane sashes above 15-pane sashes.

On the right side wall, facing the garden, there is a 2:4:2 fenestration with two projecting blocks flanking recessed central bays, along with a plain parapet, raised storey band, and raised corner pilasters. This side has 12-pane sashes above late 19th-century two-light casements. The left side wall features 16-pane sashes and includes a service block with two-light casements and a bellcote.

Inside, the manor boasts fine early 19th-century panelled doors and shutters set in moulded architraves, along with marble fireplaces in the ground-floor rooms. The front hall and stair hall are adorned with neo-classical and fretted friezes on the cornices, and there is a cantilevered staircase with a mahogany wreathed handrail and stick balusters.