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Summary

Dunscombe manor house.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SY18NE/3
• Old Listed Building Ref (II*)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• MANOR HOUSE (VIII to Late Medieval - 701 AD to 1539 AD (Between))

Full description

Morshead, J. Y. A., Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV101219.

It is thought that donscombe formed part of the domesday manor of "selcombe" or salcombe regis, and was in existence as early as 925 (morshead).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV124391.

Dunscombe manor house.

NMR CITING POLWHELE, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV124394.

The mansion house of dunscombe was burnt down about 1763 and is in ruins (nmr citing polwhele).

NMR CITING DOE, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV124395.

Originally dunscombe farmhouse was a good 16c or early 17c manor house. The s end of the existing house is of this date. On the e side are the ruined walls of a projecting wing with the remains of a fireplace. The house is a 2 storey building of beet stone masonry and rubble with a thatched roof. There are stone mullioned windows with drip moulds at the s end and an external chimney. What appears to be a 12c column or pillar and the remains of a capital are embedded in the e rubble wall of the shop at the caravan site, which was formerly a barn of the farm (nmr citing doe).

NMR CITING OS, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV124396.

28/2/1989 (os) name confirmed as dunscombe manor farm (nmr citing os).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV124397.

Hutchinson, p. O. /tda/12(1880)148/second report of the barrow committee.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV124398.

Hoskins, w. G. /devon/(1954)471.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV124399.

Osa=sy18ne1.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV124400.

Morshead, j. Y. A. /tda/30(1898)134-135,137,map/a history of salcombe regis.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV124401.

Polwhere, r. /history of devon/2(1793)235.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV124402.

Doe/hhr:sidmouth/(1973)45.

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, Untitled Source (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV24.

Vis=14/4/1950 (os) now in ruins, which are well preserved. Said by owner to have been destroyed by fire circa 1650. Manorial status not clearly attested (os).

Exeter Archaeology, 2003-2004, East Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Archaeological Survey, 408 (Archive - Survey). SDV351568.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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