Description

ILFRACOMBE

SS54NW CHAMBERCOMBE LANE
853-1/2/27 Chambercombe Manor with attached
15/06/51 yard walls
(Formerly Listed as:
CHAMBERCOMBE LANE
Chambercombe Farmhouse with
ancillary buildings and yard walls)

II*

Former manor and farmhouse, now a monument open to the public
with private accommodation. Possibly C15, built for the
Champernon family, much altered in C16, C17 and later.
MATERIALS: painted slate rubble; Welsh slate roof.
PLAN: originally a 3-room, through-passage plan (with
services, substantially rebuilt, to left) and a wing to the
rear of the inner room. Principal full-height stone internal
partitions. Later extensions including another wing standing
forward of hall and upper end.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Hall probably open at first (roof
structure not examined, but there appears to be an internal
jetty at the lower end).
Front: irregular. Hall with large external lateral stack with
set-offs and tall shaft with shaped cap. To the left one
transomed 2-light window at each level, that to 1st floor
under gabled dormer.
To right, one 2-light casement window to ground only and a
single-storey wing with 4-light window to end wall and
reconstructed stack at junction with main range. Service end
roof level lower than that to hall (the latter's gable
slate-hung); two 2-light gabled dormers over 2-light casement
and entrance to right, the latter under pentice.
Services with stair turret to rear with small 2-light window,
all under catslide; internal lateral stack immediately over
tall 2-light window to left.
INTERIOR: pegged surround and moulded lintel to passage
doorways; passage flagged. Hall with chamfered jetty
bressumer, the principal beams chamfered with raised run-outs,
the joists also chamfered; fireplace bressumer similarly
treated. C17 panelled cupboards with arched tops; lime ash
floor.
2 rooms to rear wing, that nearest the hall, presumably a
chapel although completely unadorned except for pointed
doorway durns, approached by small ante-chamber with timber
water stoup. Roof to wing with slightly curved principals and
staggered purlins. Roof structure of hall range largely
obscured by later ceilings but where visible consists of
substantial curved principals that may be jointed crucks. Hall
chamber with fragmentary plaster ceiling (frieze with
undulating foliated band, and central pendant). Main open-well
staircase to rear of services with moulded term balusters.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached wall of slatestone rubble
defines courtyard to front of house.

Listing NGR: SS5326746803

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Chambercombe Manor at Wikipedia
• Chambercombe Manor official website
• Wikidata Q5069562

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)