Manor House

Manor House, built in 1686, incorporates a range of earlier, possibly 16th-century origins. Later alterations include a 19th and 20th century front entrance porch, bay windows, and extensive renovations, along with rear additions. The building is constructed of brick with some ashlar dressings, particularly to the earlier range and porch, and has pantile roofs, with plain tiles to the bay windows and porch.

The main, L-shaped range consists of a two-room central entrance hall range and a two-room forward-projecting wing to the right. It is two storeys with an attic and features irregular fenestration. The left range has two first-floor windows. The projecting entrance porch has an ashlar plinth, a two-light ashlar mullioned window with a hood, a re-set weathered ashlar sundial, and a slit window within a brick-coped gable featuring shaped kneelers. The entrance is framed by a moulded arched ashlar surround. Two stones to the left of the porch are inscribed “RN” and “1686”, likely re-set. Ground floor canted bay windows, with 19th and 20th century casements and hipped roofs, are located on either side of the porch, the left one extending towards the porch. First-floor windows are a mix of unequal 12-pane sashes and blocked former windows. Three 20th-century hipped dormer windows are present. A steeply-pitched brick-coped gable to the left has a later end stack.

The wing to the right has a front gable-end showing a 20th-century restored brick plinth, ashlar quoins to the lower section, a 20th-century ground floor casement, a 12-pane sliding sash beneath timber lintels, and an attic casement. A brick-coped crow-stepped gable, partially rebuilt in the 20th century, has circular tie-bar ends and a truncated stack. On the right return are a 20th-century ground floor bay window, first-floor sliding sashes, and a pair of 20th-century dormers, along with an axial stack.

The interior of the range on the left features a good open well staircase, likely dating from 1686, with a moulded handrail, bulb-on-vase balusters, ball finials, and pendant drops to the plain newels. Contemporary six-panel doors with bolection mouldings lead to the first-floor landing. It also includes a late 18th-century arched alcove in a central room, an early 19th-century cornice, arched alcoves, and architraves on the ground floor to the left, and a five-bay staggered butt-purlin roof. Spine beams are present in the main rooms of both wings, and exposed timbers in the rear passage may be remnants of an earlier timber frame.