The Manor House

The Manor House is a 17th-century vernacular house located in Hartburn Village, Stockton. It is notable for being the only completely vernacular house in the area. The building has two storeys and an attic, featuring a symmetrical front with three windows. The central window is a two-storey canted bay with four lights on each floor. Constructed from brick, it has an over-capped brick string course above the ground floor, a modillion brick string course over the first floor, and a raw-tooth eaves cornice. The roof is made of pantiles with raised verges and kneelers, and there is a large rendered chimney on the ridge, offset to the left.

The central bay is topped with kneelers and is covered by an extension of the main roof slope at the same pitch, with bricks corbelled out at the top corners. The first floor features mullion windows, while the ground floor has mullion and transom windows with stone dressings and moulded architraves above the canted bay windows. To the right of the centre is a door with a four-centred arch head. There is a small pantiled lean-to on the left side and a gable-lit attic with stone mullion windows that have brick labels. At the rear, there is one pointed window and various lower pantiled extensions. Inside, there is a large inglenook fireplace in the ground floor bay window room. The modern low crenellated front garden wall contains stones taken from the Packhorse Bridge on Portrack Lane, which was demolished around 1965.