Manor House

This is a mid-18th century manor house, significantly altered and extended in the late 19th century. Constructed of red brick with a 2-span hipped roof covered in plain tiles, it also features a brick chimney. The house has a double pile plan and extends over three storeys and into cellars. It comprises five bays. Architectural details include a chamfered plinth, dentil string courses, and dentil eaves. Blue brick diapers decorate the spaces between the windows on the top storey. The windows are mostly boxed, 3-pane sashes; the first floor has three windows in the centre, while the second floor has shorter windows in bays two and four. Other upper windows have been blocked with brick, but retain their original flat brick arches. The ground floor was altered in the late 19th century and now features canted bay windows with sashes set between pilasters. The central entrance has a half-glazed door with a semi-circular fanlight, panelled reveals, and an early 19th-century doorcase. This doorcase is characterised by reeded pilasters, reeded brackets with guttae, and an open pediment. A late 19th-century verandah extends in front of the door, running between the bay windows and featuring a wooden arcade, balustrade, a tiled roof, and a central projection over the steps. An L-shaped 2-storey brick extension, built in the late 19th century, adjoins the right side of the house, displaying cogged eaves and a slate roof, with three bays of irregular casements and sashes. A pent roof shelters a 20th-century bay window, a door, and a casement window to the left of this extension. The house’s interior was refurbished in the 1890s and subsequent years. A house existed on this site as early as 1730, as shown on an estate map, and it served as the agent’s house for the estate of the Company of Bowyers.