Saxelby Manor House

A manor house, now a farmhouse, dating from the early to mid-16th century, with later 16th and early 17th century additions and alterations, and further changes in the 20th century. The building is of a 3-unit lobby entry plan. It is timber framed and rendered, with a porch and stair turret of coursed squared ironstone, a brick bay window with limestone dressings, and a Swithland slate roof. There is an ironstone lateral stack and a cruciform brick ridge stack. The main facade has two storeys and a four-window range. A two-storey, gabled porch is located to the right of the centre, featuring a Tudor-arched stone doorway and a three-light stone mullion window above, with a hood mould. A large canted bay window of around 1900 is to the right of the porch. Two-light casement windows are on the ground floor to the left of the porch, distinguished by wavy ornamental rendered surrounds, rendered sills, and hood moulds. First-floor windows are also two-light casements with similar detailing. A two-storey canted bay window is situated on the right end elevation, featuring ovolo-moulded limestone mullion windows of three lights to the front, two lights to the sides; the left side window has been converted into a door in the 20th century, and the ground floor front window has been blocked. The left end wall displays exposed timber framing against a substantial ironstone stack and brick infill. The framing appears to have large square panels. A large stone stair turret projects to the rear behind the porch. A two-storey extension of around 1900 extends to the rear right. Inside, an open-well staircase features openwork, four-sided pointed finials, pedants, and vertically symmetrical turned balusters, running from the cellar to the attic. The roof is a three-bay structure with clasped principals to collar trusses and wind-braced purlins, including ogee stop-chamfered spine beams.