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SHEAFHAYNE MANOR INCLUDING TERRACES ON ALL SIDES AND OUTBUILDINGS ADJOINING TO NORTH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1333716
Date first listed:: 22-Feb-1955
List Entry Name:: SHEAFHAYNE MANOR INCLUDING TERRACES ON ALL SIDES AND OUTBUILDINGS ADJOINING TO NORTH
Statutory Address:: SHEAFHAYNE MANOR INCLUDING TERRACES ON ALL SIDES AND OUTBUILDINGS ADJOINING TO NORTH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1333716
Date first listed:: 22-Feb-1955
List Entry Name:: SHEAFHAYNE MANOR INCLUDING TERRACES ON ALL SIDES AND OUTBUILDINGS ADJOINING TO NORTH
Statutory Address 1:: SHEAFHAYNE MANOR INCLUDING TERRACES ON ALL SIDES AND OUTBUILDINGS ADJOINING TO NORTH

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Statutory Address:: SHEAFHAYNE MANOR INCLUDING TERRACES ON ALL SIDES AND OUTBUILDINGS ADJOINING TO NORTH

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Yarcombe
National Grid Reference:: ST 25723 09287

Details

YARCOMBE ST 20 NE 8/175 Sheafhayne Manor including terraces on all 22.2.55 sides and outbuildings adjoining to north - II* Mansion, former manor house. Probably late medieval origins but the earliest work apparent is mid-late C19-early C20. Local stone and flint rubble with limestone and Hamstone detail; stone rubble stacks, mostly topped with C19 and C20 brick but a couple have C19 limestone divided octagonal chimneyshafts; slate roof. Plan and development: a large irregular T-plan house. The main block faces west- south-west, say west. It has a 2-room plan derived from the hall, passage and service end of the C16 house. At the right (south) end is a sitting room with a gable-end stack. The stack was inserted in the early C20 and room occupies the service end and passage of the C16 house. There is a 2-storey porch to the former passage front doorway. Next to it is the hall with an axial stack backing onto the site of the passage. The back door into the hall, the 2-storey porch behind it and the 1-room plan block to rear of the service end were added in the late C19-early C20. The main block continues left (northwards) of the former hall with a room which has united 2 former rooms, an unheated room then a parlour with a front lateral stack. This section is mostly hidden on the front by a parlour wing which projects forward and has a projecting outer lateral stack. The main stair projects to left in the angle between the second parlour or dining room in the main block and the principal parlour in the front wing. A service wing projects at right angles to rear of the west end. The first room here is the kitchen. The rest of this block was refurbished in the late C19-early C20 and the block was enlarged at the same time. It is difficult to assess the early structural development of this house since the late C19-early C20 refurbishment was so thorough and was carried out in the same Tudor style as the original work. There is a great deal of early work here but it is often difficult to distinguish between the various phases. For instance the roof clearly shows distinct mid-late C16 and an early C17 phases but the work from both periods below is very similar. The layout suggests that the original house began as some form of open hall house, but the hall was floored over by the mid-late C16. House is 2 storeys with disused attics in the roofspace. Exterior: right around the house the house is consistent in style. It is deliberately irregular and most long sides are interrupted by the porches, wings, extensions, turrets and the like. All the gables have shaped kneelers and coping. The windows are all limestone or Hamstone, they have ovolo-moulded mullions ( the exception is the hollow-chamfered mullions of the front porch window), hoodmoulds and contain rectangular panes of leaded glass. Most are late C19-early C20 but some are original. The front porch has limestone outer Tudor arch and the former passage front doorway is an old oak Tudor arch containing its original studded plank door with coverstrips. On the apex of the porch gable are a pair of sundials, one positioned for a.m., the other for p.m. All the roofs are gable-ended. Above a back (north) door to the service wing there hangs a bronze bell. Interior was somewhat rearranged in the late C19-early C20 but much of the fabric and detail is C16 and C17. The sitting room occupying the former passage and service end includes a length of a probably C16 oak plank-and-muntin screen. It now lines the solid crosswall between this room and the hall. Is it the lower passage screen which was moved across when the passage was abandoned? An oak Tudor arch leads from here to the hall. This has a large limestone ashlar fireplace with a chamfered oak beam, a fine 9-panel ceiling of richly-moulded intersecting beams and is lined with small field oak panelling. The 2 rooms beyond the upper end of the hall have chamfered and step-stopped beams and the second parlour fireplace is Hamstone ashlar with a Tudor arch lintel. The kitchen has plain-chamfered crossbeams and although the fireplace is blocked its chamfered oak lintel is exposed. The main parlour is a good room. It too has a Hamstone ashlar fireplace with Tudor arch lintel (another to the chamber above) and the room is lined with oak small field panelling including a frieze of carved guilloche. Some of the chambers in the main block are also lined with similar panelling and a couple are heated by small fireplaces. Although some of the panelling has been reset it is genuine and good and some doors are still hung on cockshead hinges and have original catches. Early roof structures survive only in the main block. The hall, unheated room and second parlour is the earlier. It is carried on side-pegged jointed cruck trusses with mortise-and-tenoned collars. It is designed for attic rooms and there is evidence for 1 dormer window. 2 of the trusses are closed with wattle and daub and were plastered over. The surviving plaster over a small crank-headed doorway has a crudely painted crown of scrolls which, if not C16 or C17, certainly looks it. The former service end roof is also carried on side-pegged jointed crucks but these are early C17 and have pegged and spiked dovetail-shaped lap-jointed collars. There is another main room to the house, the ballroom. This was built in the late C19-early C20 underneath a terrace behind the house in the angle of the 2 wings. The roof is the entrance forecourt. It has large windows on the terrace sides, facing south and east, and a doorway in the south side. There is a parapet around the forecourt surmounted by a series of vases. The ballroom is also connected by stairs to the main block and kitchen block. It has now lost most of its fittings. There are also wine cellars down here. To north of the kitchen wing is the service courtyard enclosed on 2 sides by low service outbuildings. The stable block is parallel to the road (at the north end) and it includes a stone plaque recording its erection in 1860 by Sir T T F E Drake. The gardens to south and west were terraced in the late C19-early C20 with stone rubble walls and included a pergola. Sheafhayne is the main house of the Yarcombe Estate. It is attractive and contains some high quality craftsmanship from the C16 and C17.

Listing NGR: ST2572309287

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.