Turkdean Manor

Turkdean Manor is a detached house, likely built in the late 16th century, with a doorcase dated 1588, for the Banystree family, and features elements from the 17th century. It was restored in 1905. The main structure is made of coursed squared and dressed limestone, while the block at the rear is constructed of ashlar. The roof is covered with stone slates and has ashlar stacks. The building has a complex plan that includes two parallel blocks, one from the 16th century and another from the 17th century, connected by linking ranges, with single-storey 20th-century extensions on the right. There is also a single-storey outbuilding, converted in the early 20th century, which is linked to the extensions via a wall on the right side of the 16th-century block.

The main body features a flat-chamfered plinth and a triple-gabled garden front. The ground floor has tall double-chamfered four-light hollow-moulded stone-mullioned casements with king mullions, while the first floor has similar but smaller casements. The gables are lit by double-chamfered three-light stone-mullioned casements with continuous hoods, and there are stopped hoods over the ground and first-floor windows. A six-light stone-mullioned window with Tudor-arched lights is located in the right gable end, which also contains a 20th-century plank door within a moulded Tudor-arched surround.

The single-storey outbuilding on the right is illuminated by a six-light stone-mullioned casement with a king mullion and four-centred headed lights, and features a 20th-century plank door with fillets towards the left end. The 17th-century block at the rear has two storeys and an attic, lit by two 20th-century roof dormers. Its three-windowed facade includes stone-mullioned cross windows with stopped hoods on the first floor. The ground floor has two tall two-light double-chamfered stone-mullioned casements to the left of a blocked doorway with a rectangular surround, and a three-light double-chamfered stone-mullioned casement with a stopped hood to the right. The roof of the 16th-century main body features saddleback coping at the gable ends and pointed finials. Late 19th to early 20th-century rainwater heads are initialled W.A.R./J.M.B. The interior is not accessible, but according to David Verey, it contains a Tudor-arched fireplace and a panelled room.