Old Manor House

Old Manor House is a house dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, with an east addition that was formerly a separate cottage built in the early 18th century. The structure is made of roughly-squared stone with cut dressings and features a pantile roof, except for the eastern part which has Welsh slates, and a rebuilt brick stack.

The south elevation has one storey, as the upper floor was removed in the 19th century, and consists of three bays on the left and two bays on the right. The main part has a renewed door located left of centre, set within a bolection-moulded surround under an entablature that features a triglyph frieze and a relief-carved panel with a date that appears to read -71- (?). There are cross windows with moulded surrounds and cornices. The right gable is coped, and there is a stack at the right end. The slightly lower right section, partly obscured by a 20th-century extension, has raised reverse-stepped coping at the right end. The left return displays another cross window, which is exposed within the adjacent house. The rear elevation features a blocked stair window and a small window below it.

Inside, the west room, which was formerly a parlour, contains an original moulded fireplace with a flat-pointed arch set within a square frame. A simpler fireplace on the first floor above is now visible in the roof space. The east addition has two upper cruck roof trusses with collars, and the ridge-piece has been renewed and is supported between the overlapped ends of the blades.

The doorway and other details of Old Manor House are very similar to those found at Swarland Old Hall, another house of mid- to late-17th-century style, which features a doorhead date that appears to be from the 18th century.