Manor Farmhouse, Manor Farm Cottages and attached meeting house

Manor Farmhouse, Manor Farm Cottages and attached meeting house

A manorial farmhouse now divided into three dwellings, with an attached meeting house. The buildings date from the 16th and 17th centuries, with later additions and alterations. Construction includes internal timber framing, ashlar sandstone and limestone, and coursed rubble sandstone. Roofs are covered with pantile, Welsh slate, stone slate and sheet asbestos.

The main structure consists of a two-storey, five-bay range facing the roadside, with a meeting house in a gabled cross-wing on the left and an extended wing of three builds to the rear centre.

The roadside front of the cross-wing has a chamfered plinth and large quoins. A large transomed eight-light mullioned window with lights flanking a central king-mullion is now partially bricked, with a door inserted through the lower two lights on the right. A string course is cut back, and there is an inserted gable doorway with a boarded door.

The main range is set back to the right and has a chamfered plinth. The left bay (No 2 Manor Farm Cottages) features a door on the left of a sash with glazing bars. The adjacent bay is of limestone ashlar with a transomed, double-chamfered, three-light window on the left of a two-light mullioned window. Bays four and five are flanked by part-glazed doors, that on the left having a mullioned overlight, with casements in double-chamfered surrounds between them and a heraldic panel on the right. The first floor has a cement-rendered jetty with five renewed, three-light, ovolo-moulded, wood-mullioned windows. A hipped roof has a truncated, offset ashlar end stack on the left and a stone base to a brick ridge stack on the right; a side-facing end gable is set back on the right return.

The rear of the cross-wing has been much altered. The ground-floor window originally matched the front, with a weathered dripstone beneath an inserted gable door. The adjacent bay of the main range, set back on the left, has a transomed, three-light, double-chamfered window and a blocked single-light window on the ground floor, with a dripmould continuous with the cross-wing. Two two-light double-chamfered mullioned windows are on the first floor beneath the dripmould and a gabled dormer. The right return of the rear wing has a central doorway with a bolection-moulded architrave and cornice, flanked by sashes with glazing bars, and a blacked quoined doorway to the far right. A first-floor band on the left is beneath a transomed five-light, double-chamfered window with a hoodmould. A truncated brick end stack is on the right; an ashlar base to a brick-shafted ridge stack is on the left. A first addition to the wing, set back on the right, has a quoined doorway on the left of a three-light casement beneath a lintel tooled as voussoirs, with a later casement above. A second addition has a door on the left of a window on each floor.

The interior of the meeting house contains a bolection-moulded fireplace on the ground floor and an ashlar fireplace with a relieving arch on the upper floor. A wall post is visible to the left of the upper fireplace. Two principal-rafter trusses are present. The left bay of the front range (No 2 Manor Farm Cottages) has 18th-century fielded panelling to the front room and a refixed or original late 17th-century staircase to the rear with turned balusters and a square, moulded newel post with finial. A matching landing balustrade is present, and a wall post is visible in the upper room.

The rest of the interior was not inspected.

The meeting house was formerly used as a Methodist Chapel.