The Manor House And Wall Attached To Rear

The Manor House is a substantial house, with a probable core dating back to the late 17th century, extended in the early 18th and again in the early 19th centuries. It is constructed of stone and brick, with parts rendered, and has slate roofs. The main rectangular block is complemented by a central porch wing on the north side, a cross-wing on the east side, wings to the rear, and a westward extension that connects to ranges of outbuildings arranged around a yard open to the west.

The north elevation is divided into four parts. The central three-storey block, three bays wide, is rendered. A projecting two-storey wing of around 1840 is centrally placed; this has a blocked doorway with a stepped architrave under a lunette, flanked by single-light windows. Above is a three-light window under a coped gable with kneelers. All windows on this wing have latticed glazing with coloured borders, set in chamfered surrounds with hoodmoulds. The left return of the wing features a flush panelled door in a chamfered surround, while the right return displays a tall 20th-century brick stack. The flanking bays of the main block contain windows in raised moulded surrounds with varied glazing, some sash windows. Corniced brick end stacks are present. To the left is a gabled cross-wing built of brick in Flemish bond with rusticated quoins, set upon a stone basement. A chamfered basement doorway is flanked by small windows, and a round-arched window with raised imposts and keystone sits above two windows, all containing late 19th-century casements in raised moulded surrounds. The coped gable has kneelers with finials and a central corniced stack. The left return of the cross-wing is two storeys and two bays, displaying a stepped panelled corniced top. To the right of the main block is a two-storey, three-bay west extension of coursed stone, topped with a pseudo-crenellated parapet and a corniced brick right end stack. The tripartite sashes have late 19th-century casements in raised moulded surrounds. A plain section, set forward, sits to the right, with small casement windows and a crenellated parapet.

The rear (garden) elevation comprises a central two-storey, three-gabled section of rubble masonry with dressings and rusticated quoins. A slightly projecting central bay has glazed double doors under an overlight, while the gables of the flanking bays contain stone stacks widened in brick. Set back to either side are the brick gabled ends of the cross-wing (right) and rear wing of the west extension (left). Most windows are late 19th-century casements in raised moulded surrounds, except for two 8-pane sashes in architraves in the left brick wing; the wings also have paired loops to the attics—oval in the left wing and vesicas in the right. A crenellated screen wall backs the outbuilding range returning south, and then continues west as a tall flat-coped section. The interior is reported to have been much altered. The house is a complex and picturesque construction, with a difficult-to-interpret structural history.