BARNECOURT MANOR

Identity: confirmed — The TNA/MDR record name and Lustleigh location match the documented medieval Barnecourt Manor House in Lustleigh, Devon. Historic Environment records identify the manor-house site at OS grid reference SX 758 834, while local historical research identifies Barnecourt/Barncourt as a principal medieval tenement and former manorial-court location within the Lustleigh manor estate.
Representative point: 50.63696, -3.75770
Basis: documented_manor_house — Approximate WGS84 conversion of the documented OS grid reference SX 758 834 for Barnecourt Manor House. The house was demolished shortly before the Second World War, but its site is recorded archaeologically and on the late nineteenth-century Ordnance Survey map.
Point confidence: medium
Boundary status: representative_point_only
Boundary period:
Boundary confidence: none
Boundary basis: The available evidence securely locates Barnecourt Manor House and identifies Barnecourt/Barncourt as one of the historic tenements of the wider Lustleigh manor. It does not provide a documented or reconstructable perimeter for the separate Barnecourt manorial holding. The approximately 1,200-acre extent reported for Domesday Sutreworde relates to the wider Lustleigh manor/estate and must not be substituted for a Barnecourt boundary.
Sources:
- Heritage Gateway: Barnecourt Manor House, Lustleigh, HER MDV8833: https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/gateway/Results_Single.aspx?resourceID=104&uid=MDV8833 — Records Barnecourt Manor House in Lustleigh at OS grid reference SX 758 834; states that the medieval manor house was demolished shortly before the Second World War and was depicted on the late nineteenth-century Ordnance Survey map.
- The National Archives Discovery: Barnecourt Manor, TNA/MDR F276434: https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F276434 — Registry record supplied for the exact manor name BARNECOURT MANOR and authority/reference GB/NNAF/M294492.
- The History of Lustleigh: https://www.lustleigh-society.org.uk/home-page/history/ — Identifies the Barnecourt area as a former manorial-court location and states that Barncourt was probably the demesne farm of the wider Domesday manor of approximately 1,200 acres.
- The Ruins of Boveycombe, Lustleigh Society: https://www.lustleigh-society.org.uk/the-ruins-of-boveycombe/ — States that Barncourt was one of eight historic tenements of the Manor of Lustleigh, distinguishing it from the wider manor estate.
- Barnecourt in Devon, Streetmap: https://streetmap.co.uk/place/Barnecourt_in_Devon_386611_94611.htm — Provides a map reference and WGS84 conversion for the Barnecourt locality, useful as a geographic cross-check against the Heritage Gateway grid reference.
Warnings / uncertainty:
- The supplied historical alternative name "Barnhouse Bank (Manor)" was not independently corroborated in the accessible sources; Barnecourt and Barncourt are the historically attested variants.
- No historically supported polygon for the territorial extent of the separate Barnecourt holding was found. The modern civil-parish boundary and the wider Lustleigh manor extent were not substituted.