Black Hall Manor is a Grade II* listed building near the village of Avonwick, in Devon.It was Built around 1820 possibly by the Architect R Brown of London for local landowner Hubert Cornish, it is believed that the current building is on the site of an older construction called Blakehall. In 1881 the house was extended by Fredrick James Cornish Bowden who built additional servants building to the west of the property, consisting of yellow brick with corbelled brick eaves cornice and a hipped slate roof. The current building is square in shape and faces south, it is three rooms deep and has two principle state rooms to the front. In the basement a kitchen and bakehouse are located as well as the servants hall and dairy which are at ground level at the back of the house due to the sloping elevation. To the front of the building a five bay façade has been installed with a pillared porch it the centre. The windows are 12-pane sash windows dating from the 19th century and have wooden shutters on the inside.
The interior of the building boasts a fine oval staircase and hall with a mahogany handrail and stick balusters and egg and dart mouldings on the walls and ceiling. The stairwell has an elliptical vault and moulded friezes and motifs. The house has a marble fireplace with detailed columns to either side. Another marble fireplace is in the dinning room which dates from the Victorian era.
Black Hall Manor was the seat of the Fowells of Fowellscombe Hall which are now in ruins. In 1815 Black Hall was sold to Hubert Cornish who built the present house and landscaped the grounds. [1]
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[1] English Heritage - http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=101368