The Manor House

The Manor House is a house with two construction phases, dating from the late 16th century and early 17th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. It is timber-framed with later brick infill and has a pantile roof. The building has an L-shaped plan, consisting of a two-bay lobby-entry hall block added to a two-bay crosswing. It stands two storeys high, featuring two windows on the first floor and one on the ground floor.

On the entrance front, the hall block, located on the left, has an added porch and is flanked by three-light casement windows on both floors. The crosswing, projecting on the right, showcases exposed corner posts and similar casements. A brick ridge stack is positioned above the porch, while the crosswing features a hipped roof with a brick ridge stack. At the rear, the hall block displays three exposed wall posts, with those on the left showing exposed braces to the wallplate.

The interior has not been inspected, but a detailed survey by S. R. Jones notes that the crosswing features higher quality timberwork and has transverse ceiling joists in the front ground-floor room, which are pegged to a spine beam that also has mortices for a partition wall. The central post of the wing, where it connects with the hall block, has been removed, but the weathered wall-plate remains, showing mortices for light studding. This suggests that the two structures may have been occupied by separate households of the same family at different times.

The Manor House was once home to William Bradford, who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 and became the Governor of Plymouth Colony in April 1621, a position he held, except for five years, until his death in 1657. He authored the "History of Plymouth Colony," a manuscript that was discovered in Fulham Palace Library in 1855 and later given to the United States.