Manor House

Manor House. The left wing dates to 1691, as indicated by a plaque in the gable end, while the wing projecting to the right was built in the late 16th or early 17th century, although it has been altered and truncated. The left wing has a limestone ashlar front and gable end, with a rubble stone rear wall, while the right wing is rendered. Both wings are roofed with collyweston slate with coped gables. The left wing features ashlar chimneys, cruciform at the centre, while the right wing has a pair of square shafts linked by an entablature cap. The building is now L-shaped; the left wing was originally of lobby entry type, and the right wing represents the surviving portion of a former T-plan building with a front wing that has been demolished.

The left wing is two storeys and an attic, with a chamfered plinth and eaves, a raised first floor band course, and rusticated quoins to the left. It contains ovolo-moulded limestone mullion windows with raised cavetto moulded surrounds and leaded glazing. The main bays have 3-light windows, the centre has a 2-light window above a 20th-century single-light window, and a single light replaces what was formerly a lobby entry. The left gable end has 3-light windows to the main floors and a 2-light window to the attic. A 20th-century gabled projection and a conservatory have been added to the rear. The right wing is gabled and projecting, with a single bay and 4-light ovolo-moulded stone windows to the left return and front gable. These windows have king mullions, casement cornices, and leaded glazing, with the ground floor windows extended in height. A 20th-century stone doorcase, re-sited from the centre of the left wing, is set diagonally across the angle between the wings. The doorcase has a moulded architrave frame, pulvinated frieze, and moulded cornice.

Inside the right wing, a moulded and stopped stone fireplace with a 4-centred arch can be found, along with chamfered first floor cross beams featuring fine bar stops. A fine late 17th-century staircase connects the two wings, with sturdy twisted balusters, a flattish handrail, and panelled newels. A winder stair leads to the attic in the far left corner of the left wing. The left wing also has wooden lintels to fireplaces, 2-panel doors to the former lobby, and a heavily moulded box cornice, possibly the top of a former dresser, in the left bay.