Penfound Manor

Heritage listing

Details SX 29 NW POUNDSTOCK 10/124 Penfound Manor (formerly listed as 26.9.51 Penfound) GV II* Manor house, now house. C15 or earlier, C17 remodelling, 1950 alterations and additions. Dressed stone to porch, quoins to left hand wing, the C15 hall masonry of very small dimensions, granite dressings and bitumen painted rag and scantle slate roofs with gabled ends. Stone chimneys with drip courses and tapering top at left. 6-bay medieval hall with C17 added lateral stack at rear, the hall now ceiled. 3-room and through passage plan consisting of hall, cross passage with single storey porch, heated room to right known as 'little hall' and further unheated room to right. C16 heated parlour added in projecting left front gabled wing with solar above. In C17 parlour remodelled, 'little hall' heated and kitchen added behind 'little hall'. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 1 + 5 window front with front left wing with gabled ends. Break in masonry on front marks the end of the medieval hall. Off-centre gabled stone porch with rag slate roof to right of hall. Porch has 4-centred, arched granite moulded doorway with double broach stops with central ball motif. Square headed hoodmould with label stops, granite inscription carved in relief in spandrels reads "IN THE YEARE 1642". C17 sundial in porch gable. Ground floor window in front left wing tall 4-light hollow chamfered granite mullioned window below timber lintel, leaded panes. Massive projecting lateral stack with tall stone shaft on right return of wing. 4-light hall window to left of porch late C18/early C19 casement with leaded panes. 2 ground floor windows to right of porch 2-light casements with leaded panes, both Under timber lintels. Ground floor window right 3-light hollow-chamfered granite mullioned window. First floor window in

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.