Manor Farm Cottage

Manor Farm Cottage is a house, now divided into two separate residences, dating to the mid-17th century. It is constructed of large coursed gritstone with a stone slate roof. The house was originally built with a three-cell direct-entry plan, double-depth, and features an additional original doorway into the first cell. It has double-chamfered mullioned windows with a continuous hood mould above the ground-floor windows.

The first cell has a doorway with a Tudor-arched lintel and a richly moulded surround comprising a roll, step, and cyma mould. Above the doorway is a four-light window, of similar design, and a two-light “fire-window” with a small chamfered light above. The second cell features a two-light fire-window, a five-light housebody window, and a 17th-century gabled open porch protecting the doorway, which has the same detailing as the doorway to the first cell. The first floor of the second cell contains a two-light and a three-light window. The third cell has a four-light window, lacking two mullions on each floor. A kneeler is present on the right gable, which has a 19th-century ridge stack, and a 17th-century external stack. Another stack is located along the ridge at the junction of the first and second cells.

Inside the first cell, stop-chamfered spine beams are set against the bressumer. In the second cell, the doorway opens directly into the housebody, at the opposite end of the room to the fireplace; it has stop-chamfered spine beams with scarf joints on the line of the hood bressumer. The rear of the house contains several simple service rooms. The original plan is unusual, with entrances into two cells that originally had back-to-back firehoods.