Manor Farmhouse

Manor Farmhouse is a late 17th-century house with alterations made in the early 19th century and the late 19th century. The house is constructed of brick, predominantly in English bond, and has been colourwashed. Stucco quoins accentuate the corners. The roof is covered with pantiles. The house has a double-depth plan, with a three-room front, including a blocked original lobby-entry to the left of the center and a later entrance hall to the right. The rear of the house also contains three rooms with both a main and a back staircase. The house is two stories high with an attic, and has three windows on the first floor. The rustic doorcase is surrounded by a wooden panel above the door, featuring a fluted keystone and arched wing motifs carved in relief, flanked by carved consoles supporting a low-pitched, dentiled pediment with a central floral ornament. The door itself has 12 panes above two fielded panels, and a three-pane overlight within a fielded-panel reveal. Two openings are blocked to the left. A pair of flat-roofed, wooden canted bay windows are located at each end, with four-pane sashes, Doric pilasters, and an entablature. The first floor has 19th-century sashes; an earlier, blocked window is located above the former entrance. All openings were boarded up at the time of resurvey. A cogged brick eaves cornice runs around the top of the walls. The steeply-pitched roof has high brick coped and tumbled gables. Two original axial stacks have central, vertically projecting brick ribs and stepped cornices; a later external stack is present on the left gable. Axial and end stacks are also found on the rear of the house. A ground-floor bay window with a 12-pane sash, a segmental-arched first-floor window, and single, similar attic sashes to each gable (all boarded up) are on the left return. The interior details are largely from the early-to-mid 19th century. An arched alcove with fluted pilasters and a keyed architrave is present on the ground floor to the left. The entrance hall features an arched, moulded dado rail and arched alcoves flanking a fireplace; the fireplace is collapsed and ruinous. An open-well main staircase has a largely removed balustrade, but sections of ramped handrail, a column newel, and slender column-on-vase balusters remain. Doors include four-fielded panel, six-fielded-and-beaded panel, and plain varieties with L-shaped hinges. It is described as an unusual and distinguished early brick building. At the time of resurvey, the farmhouse was empty and in a state of decay.