Langstone Manor

Langstone Manor is a manor house, now used as a farmhouse, with origins in the late 16th century, substantially rebuilt and extended in 1907. The house is constructed of dressed stone, with some masonry brought to course, granite and freestone dressings. The roof is of small slates with sprocketted eaves, gabled at the ends, with one wing having a half-hipped end. There are six square brick stacks, each with round-headed recesses and moulded brick cornices. Some decorative slate-hanging is present in the gables.

The west front of the house is arranged in an E-plan and is in the Elizabethan style, appearing to retain some original fabric, although the extent of rebuilding is difficult to ascertain. The rear elevation is less archaeologically significant, consisting of four irregular picturesque projections, three gabled and one half-hipped. The masonry of one rear projection is likely from the 16th or 17th century.

The symmetrical west front features projecting wings on the left and right. A central, two-storey porch has a string course and gabled sprocketted eaves. The granite doorway has a segmental arch with a keystone, carried on capitals supported on moulded piers. The doorway also has a square-headed hoodmould with label stops, possibly a reconstruction. The first floor of the porch has a three-light mullioned window with leaded panes under a hoodmould with label stops. An ogee-headed chamfered one-light window is located in the porch gable. Ground floor windows to the left and right of the porch are each four-light granite mullioned windows with a king mullion, hoodmould, label stops, and leaded panes. Similar, smaller four-light windows are present on the first floor, without a king mullion. The north and south front wings contain similar three and two-light mullioned windows; two also have hoodmoulds raised above the lintels and were likely reconstructed in 1907. A 1907 Tudor arched doorway is on the south side of the north wing. The west gable end of the north wing has four tall chamfered one-light windows, and three similar windows and one two-light mullioned window are present on the south wing. Elsewhere, the house retains 1907 fenestration, including one-, two-, three-, and four-light timber sashes, mostly with high transoms.

The interior includes one small room panelled throughout with bolection moulded panelling, including cupboards on either side of a fireplace. Two reconstructed Tudor chimney pieces are in the hall. Plaster ceilings with strapwork decoration date to 1907. Good 18th and 19th century doors are also present. Langstone Manor was formerly owned by Tavistock Abbey before the Reformation. The house is said to have been damaged by fire at the end of the 19th century.