Description

SX 55 NE SPARKWELL NEWNHAM ROAD 10/120 23-4-52 Old Newnham GV I

Former manor house. C15 origins, largely rebuilt in early C16. Granite ashlar and rubble with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs, gabled and hipped. The original hall, non floored, has a screens passage moved from the west end to the east end. The solar is in the long west range which extends to the south-west to form an L-shaped plan and incorporates the remains of the gatehouse. The chapel possibly occupied the much altered wing east of the hall, and the kitchen was to the north. Two storeys. Three/4 bays. Gabled 2-storeyed porch to right of hall, with moulded 4-centred arch doorway with carved spandrels and 3-light ovolo moulded stone mullion window above, with hood mould. Hall to left with large recessed 6-light window with ovolo mullion and transoms, 3 of the lower mullions removed. Oriel to left (west) of hall with mutilated tracery. Right hand (east) remodelled projecting cross wing with hipped roof and sash windows. Long wing to left hand (south-west) forming L-plan and with levels descending southwards. Two and 3 storeys. Large moulded stone mullion windows with 4-centred or ogee-arched lights. Moulded 4-centred arch doorways with recessed spandrels on ground and first floor. The south range, the remains of the gate house, has wide carriageway with moulded 4-centred arch and carved spandrels. Other round, pointed and 4-central arch openings, and buttresses with set-offs. Fine garderobe corbelled out on south gable end. Large ashlar chimneystacks, 2 over the west range with crenellated lantern shaped taps and crocketed finials. Interior: hall has inserted floor but retains the collar-braced roof of 3 bays. Hall fireplace has large moulded granite chimneypiece with ogee head. The higher end of the hall has three C15 doorways. The original solar in the west range has compartmented moulded ceiling with carved bosses at the intersections and granite chimneypiece. The room below has moulded and carved ceiling beams. Four-centred arch doorways at top and bottom of solar stairs. Formerly the seat of the Strodes before they moved to Newnham Park qv. Reference: W G Hoskins, "Devon A New Survey of England", page 463.

Listing NGR: SX5521257366

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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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