Description

PAIGNTON

SX8961 OLD TORQUAY ROAD
1947-1/4/66 (North side)
13/03/51 The Old Manor Inn
(Formerly Listed as:
OLD TORQUAY ROAD
Manor Inn)

GV II

Public House. Mid C17 or earlier.
MATERIALS: Rendered mass wall; thatched roof with plain ridge,
hipped at left end of left wing, gabled at right end;
half-hipped at ends of right-hand block; stacks with brick and
rendered shafts.
PLAN: The right-hand block is the principal range. This has a
single-depth 3-room plan with a rear outshut, the 2 right-hand
rooms heated by a right-end and axial stack, the left-hand end
with a rear left lateral stack. The left-hand wing, perhaps
originally a service or stable building, is now used as a bar
and restaurant, is roofed on the same axis and partly overlaps
the original at the front. It is heated by probably C20 stacks
at the left-end and on the front. Flat-roofed C20 addition to
rear.
EXTERIOR: Main range 2 storeys; left wing single-storey.
Asymmetrical 2:3-window front. Main block has a recessed
part-glazed door to right of centre with small panes above a
low panel. 3 ground- and 3 first-floor timber windows with C20
leaded panes. The wing has an entrance on the right return
with a wide doorway, C20 timber door with 2-panel overlight.
To its left, a large 2-light top-hung timber window. The front
elevation of the wing has a large doorway to the right with
shallow brick cheeks and a 2-leaf timber door with an
overlight with glazing bars. Two 3-light windows to its left
are glazed with pretty c1840s casements each light with a
central vertical band of diamond panes with margin panes.
INTERIOR: Partly inspected. The right-hand room of the main
range has C17 well-carpentered chamfered scroll-stopped cross
beams. Remains of bread oven associated with fireplace in
centre room. Roof not inspected but may be of interest.
One of a group of pre-C19 vernacular buildings in Preston.

Listing NGR: SX8911261770

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503191

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Recommended Books

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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)