The Manor House

The Manor House is a house dating from the late 17th century, likely built for Ambrose Barnes. It is constructed of stone, rendered and pebbledashed, with cut stone dressings, and has a graduated stone slate roof. The south elevation is symmetrical, with five bays and two storeys plus an attic. A renewed fielded-panel door sits centrally, with a radial fanlight in a rusticated surround, flanked by pilasters which carry a cornice topped with two courses of stone slates. Above the door is a keyed oval window with radial glazing. The ground floor has small-paned casements in cross windows with panelled mullions and transoms; the first floor has four-pane sash windows with pulvinated friezes and cornices. All windows are set within architraves, with the windows in the second bay being renewed. A flat-mullioned two-light attic window sits centrally beneath the eaves. The gables are coped with moulded kneelers, and the end stacks are stepped and corniced. The left return shows a first-floor four-pane casement and two chamfered attic lights, while the right return displays a first-floor four-pane sash, along with a four-pane casement and sash window to the attic.

The road front features a central boarded door in a surround of pilasters, a frieze, and a cornice topped with two courses of stone slates, flanked by small chamfered windows. The left window has a four-pane casement and an old iron bar, while the right one is blocked. To the right is a two-light chamfered mullioned window. The ground floor left bay is blank. The first floor has a central keyed oval flanked by two-light mullioned windows in architraves.

Inside, the dining room has a fireplace with a chamfered lintel on bolster impost blocks, and the sitting room features an early 19th-century ironwork fireplace flanked by open cupboards in architraves. A closed-string dogleg staircase has turned balusters, square newels, and a moulded handrail. The house has two-panel doors throughout, and bedroom wall cupboards feature H and butterfly hinges. The attics contain three stop-chamfered upper cruck trusses with collar beams and later saddles.

A historical note indicates that Ambrose Barnes, who died in 1710 and became Lord Mayor of Newcastle, likely commissioned the house. In the early 19th century, it was used as a "Yorkshire" boarding school. A single-storey pent extension on the left return is not considered to be of special interest.