The Manor House

The Manor House is a house dating from the early 17th century, with additions of the late 17th century and further alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. A range was added in 1671, as recorded by an inscription: IOHN BROOKE ECCL 2 II MARY 1671. Further additions in 1902 were undertaken by Isaac Massey, builders, for Colonel Dixon, JP. The house is constructed with a stone plinth, timber framing with brick and rendered brick infill, and has a slate and cement tile roof. It is two and three storeys high.

The entrance front features a gable-ended core of the original two-cell building. To the left of centre is a section with a stone plinth and seven-by-three cells of small timber framing, including angle braces. A door is located to the left, with a moulded bressumer for the jetty supported on brackets. A casement window from the 17th or 18th century is situated on the first floor. To the right is a late 17th-century range with seven-by-three timber framing cells on a stone plinth to the ground floor and a similar number of cells to the first floor. A ground-floor window has three 17th or 18th-century casement lights. A 20th-century door is positioned to the right, and there are two casement lights to the first floor. Decorative framing to the gable displays a diamond-patterned small timber framing with cross motifs. A dated range of 1671 is located to the right, featuring four-by-three timber framing cells on the ground floor and a three-light casement window. An inscription is featured on the upper horizontal beam. A moulded jetty-bressumer sits immediately above this. The first floor has three-by-two cells of ornamental panelling with cusped quarter-circle decorative motifs and a 17th or 18th-century four-light casement window. A further moulded bressumer juts to the third floor, which has three-by-two cells of small framing with a three-light casement window in the gable, displaying fleur-de-lys motifs to the apex and sides. Extensive 19th and 20th-century additions are present to the left and right, and at the rear of the house.

Inside, the early 17th-century portion contains two full crucks, originally forming an open hall but later divided into two floors in the mid or late 17th century. The later 17th-century section displays small timber framing to the internal walls and stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. A richly moulded bressumer defines the parlour ingle-nook fireplace, supported by ovolo-moulded stone piers. A tension brace is visible on what was formerly an external wall. A 19th-century inscription on the interior side of a beam reads: "When thou hast eaten and art full then shalt thou thank the Lord thy God”. First-floor bedrooms and a dressing room have 18th-century ogee-moulded plaster ceilings. A fine 17th-century staircase features moulded splat balusters with heart-shaped holes, a moulded handrail and ribbed newel posts with octagonally faceted ball knops. Some 17th or 18th-century glass remains.