Jordan Manor

WIDECOMBE-IN- SX 77 NW THE-MOOR 2/177 Jordan Manor 23.8.55 GV II

Farmhouse, believed to be a former longhouse. Early C17, with later additions. Granite rubble. Thatched roof, hipped at left-hand end. Small rendered chimneystack on centre of ridge and another on right-hand gable. Present plan has cross-passage (with blocked door at rear end); one long room (formerly 2 rooms) to right and another long room (believed to have been the shippon) to left. Added rear wing to right. 2 storeys. 7-window front. C19 wood casement windows with glazing- bars. Upper-storey windows have chamfered and stopped wood lintels; the 2 right- hand ground-storey windows have C19 segmental arches of red brick. Single-storeyed stone entrance-porch with thatched pent-roof and segmental-arched stone lintel; stone seat inside and 7-panelled C19 door, the 3 lowest panels flush. To right of porch a small rectangular stair turret, probably a later addition. To right of stair turret a 1769 datestone. To left of porch a granite dog-kennel with iron hinges and catch for a door; kennel has a flat slab of stone for a roof, supported by a similar slab on the left and 2 stone uprights on the right. Interior: hall fireplace, backing on to through-passage, has chamfered wood lintel. Upper-floor beam next to it is double ovolo-moulded and has scroll-stops with bar. 2 other beams beyond it are chamfered with scroll-stops. No structural evidence of a former partition. C18 or early C19 roof-timbers.

Listing NGR: SX7006575055