Series: Richard Parker Historic Building Recording and Interpretation unpublished report series

Berrynarbor Manor Hall is a community hall lying in the centre of Berrynarbor village. The building is run by the Manor Hall Trust, a registered charity, who hold it in trust for the benefit of the inhabitants of the parish. It occupies the remains of the historic Manor House of Berrynarbor, a Grade II Listed building of medieval origin, and was once part of a larger complex of manorial structures. The remains preserve some unusual features which may suggest the survival of elements of earlier date, and carved decorations which show that the house was refurbished with the additionof high quality ornaments in the early 17th century. The building retains a highly-unusual roof for the period supported by common rafter trusses of a type usually associated (in Devon) with 13th and 14th-century buildings.

A building survey was undertaken in advance of the demolition of cottages at higher Thorne, Exford. The building appears to have been constructed in the 19th century, probably as a farm building such as a bank barn or stable. The first floor appears to have been used for hand threshing while the ground floor was divided into a stable and tack room. The building was converted into cottages in the early 20th century, possibly for estate or farm workers.

Windout Farm lies to the south-south-west of Tedburn St Mary village. The archaeological works were commissioned by the current owners of the farmhouse to inform a possible application for planning permission and listed building consent to undertake alterations with the aim of improving the relationship between the house and the garden. Windout Farmhouse is of medieval date and originally had an open hall at the centre with a storeyed element jettying into it at the south end. These rooms seem to have been the high-status rooms during the early history of the house. The north end of the building was improved in the 16th or early 17th century by the addition of plaster ceilings and a sgraffito decorated fireplace, perhaps when this end of the house was first storeyed. These features suggest that the north end of the house was now the high-status area. The house was further improved in the 17th century by the addition of a new kitchen wing at the south-eastern corner. This was of two storeys from its first construction and was perhaps contemporary with the enclosure of the open hall. The kitchen wing has a very large fireplace, filling the entire eastern bay, with a high, wide internal compartment, possibly designed to allow the smoking of cured meats. The survival of two ovens, including a north Devon ceramic cloam oven is of particular interest, as this lies at the extreme edge of the known distribution of these ovens in the county.

Archaeological recording at St Michael's Church, Kingsteignton, Devon, was undertaken as a condition of a faculty for alterations, including the demolition of part of the west wall of the north aisle for the construction of a new boiler house and disabled toilets. During the late Saxon period Kingsteignton was a royal possession, the chief administrative centre for Teignbridge Hundred. The church may have originated as a Saxon minster. The present building is a superficially regular structure, apparently of late-medieval date; however, despite its uniformity, the church has clearly developed over a long period by accretion around an earlier core. A surprising amount of instructive early fabric survives in the south aisle, including evidence of lean-to structures and doorways in the western bays which, in a larger church with a known monastic origin, there would be no difficulty in identifying as potentially those of a cloister. It is suggested that the Saxon minster church might have continued after the conquest as a Norman monastery, but that it did not survive the donation of its income to the cathedral of Old Sarum in 1122 to endow the 'Golden Prebend' of Teignton Regis. The demolition of the medieval west wall of the north aisle revealed reused fragments of an earlier newel stair, perhaps relating to a lost tower or turret preceding the present late-medieval or post-medieval western tower. It is suggested that an 11th or 12th century cruciform church was remodelled to conform to a late-medieval 'ideal' of regularity and homogeneity.

Alterations and rebuilding of the organ on the pulpitum screen at Exeter Cathedral during 2013- 14 resulted in the removal of the pipes and other mechanical parts to the organ builder's workshop and left the great 17th-century case erected on the screen in the years following the Restoration of the Monarchy temporarily empty. This provided an opportunity to undertake detailed recording of the fabric of the organ case to distinguish the phases of repair and restoration undertaken during successive phases of repair and enlargement of the instrument. The recording demonstrated that 19th-century alterations had been undertaken with sensitivity and with the aim of preserving as much as possible of the original fabric of the organ case in the rebuilt instrument.

Documentary research and an assessment of historic buildings was undertaken at Lower Dunscombe in advance of the conversion of derelict farm buildings into a new residence. The site is an ancient settlement, formerly with its own farmhouse, which was destroyed by fire in the 19th century. A barn and a linhay were constructed on the site in the late 19th century follow the disaster.

An Historic building Assessment of Great Potheridge, Merton, Devon

Hill House Nursing home is a large historic property standing in Horsepool Street, Brixham, Devon. In advance of refurbishment works at the property a second phase of archaeological recording was undertaken by Richard Parker Historic Buildings Recording and Interpretation, with the aim of understanding and interpreting the roof structures of this complex building. The house is presumed to be of late 15th or early 16th-century origin, with the possible remains of a smoke-blackened roof indicating an open hall. the house was altered by substantial additions in the 17th century. It was heavily refurbished in regency style in the early 19th century.

Harringcourt House, formerly Harrington Farm mat be a mid 16th-century house constructed constructed after the sale 'Piecemeal' of the original manor lands of Pinhoe in 1531. The building retains several fireplace of this period. The plan form of the building is, however, unusual for such an early date, with two large rear lateral stacks . The house may have been conceived of as a symmetrical house with a central entry and rooms on either side of a central entrance hall. the house may have been substantially reconstructed in the 17th century, perhaps as late as 1700, on a fashionable plan with a central staircase. It has since been divided into two properties.

In advance of the refurbishment of this Victorian Sunday School to serve as a community facility a desk top assessment and archaeological survey of the building and site was carried out by Richard Parker Historic Buildings Recording and Interpretation. the site is an ancient one, immediately adjoining the church of St Mary Steps and was formerly occupied by an ancient house, at one time the rectory and later the property of the Exe Bridge Trust. The Sunday School was constructed in the 1890s to the designs of Edward G. Warren and is an important example of educational provision by an historic city parish at a time of increasing control of education by the State.