Teigncombe Manor

Teigncombe Manor is a house, originally a Dartmoor longhouse, likely dating from the 16th century with improvements in the 17th century and refurbishment in the mid-20th century. The construction is granite stone rubble with large dressed granite quoins, granite stacks with ashlar chimney shafts, and a slate roof, formerly thatched.

The original plan was that of a longhouse facing north-east, built down a slight slope, with a three-room-and-through-passage layout, the inner room being at the uphill (northwestern) end. The inner room has a projecting end stack, and the hall has an axial stack backing onto the site of the former passage. A newel stair turret at the rear of the hall has been adapted into a rear porch. The original passage and shippon were rebuilt; the passage has been enlarged to create a large entrance hall with a staircase. The rest of the shippon has been converted for domestic use and given its own end stack. A mid-20th century service extension projects at right angles to the rear of the inner room.

The exterior presents an irregular five-window front. The two-window section of the hall and inner room (the right end) dates from the 17th century and features granite frames, chamfered mullions, and hoodmoulds to the ground floor windows. However, in the mid-20th century, the windows were enlarged and the mullions renewed; original three-light windows were reduced to two lights and the four-light hall window became three-lights. A little left of centre is the front doorway of the original passage, now converted to a window and flanked by projecting stone walls that carry the roof down as a hood; these walls have been raised in the 20th century, and a moulded corbel on the right wall is believed to be original. Other mid-20th century insertions include a window above the passage doorway and two first floor windows over the shippon end. The current doorway to the left may be on the site of the original cow door. At the left end is a shippon slit window, and another is located opposite on the rear wall. A small granite segmental-headed doorway, containing a 20th-century door, is located to the rear of the passage, with a granite round-headed window to the left. The roof is gable-ended. The service block has 20th-century granite mullioned windows in a 17th-century style.

The interior was not inspected during the survey and was evidently much altered during the 20th-century renovation, but it is likely that 16th and 17th century features survive at the hall and inner room end. The roof structure may also be early.