Manor House, Rhodes House, Wall And Gate Piers To Cobbled Yard And Garden Wall To No 33

The property comprises a manor house, Rhodes House, and associated walls and gate piers to a cobbled yard and garden wall to number 33. The buildings date from the 16th century onwards and represent a picturesque and complex group, with significant 19th-century Gothic Revival detailing. The roofs are covered with old tiles.

The west side of the manor house is primarily 19th century and features a restored central tower with a 14th-century pointed stone doorway. This doorway is adorned with corbels and a frieze of angels beneath ogee heads. A straight-headed four-light window with a square dripmould is situated on the north side of the tower. A 14th-century head of a king is incorporated into a chimney stack. A two-light 14th-century window is present in the north gable. The north side of the courtyard displays a date stone of 1637 and an unusual polygonal chimney stack, possibly 14th century, with attached shafts, moulded capitals, and turreted pots.

Adjoining the main manor house is a part of a 17th-century house with a crow-stepped gable, and a stone-mullioned bay of two storeys with six-light windows. A date stone, "1619," is located between the storeys. Later 19th-century fabric contributes to this side of number 33 and is included as part of the overall composition.

The entrance to the cobbled yard from the street is marked by a pair of fine early 18th-century stone gate piers topped with "pineapple" finials. A blocked segmental-headed doorway in the surrounding wall features a small modern dog’s drinking fountain at its base, accompanied by a rhyme. A grotesque carving is built into the wall of the garden. These architectural elements are believed to be salvaged fragments from Sleaford Castle.

The interior of the manor house contains an early room, situated behind the 1619 wing, and features panelling with Tudor Renaissance motifs.

Rhodes House, dating to the mid-18th century, is constructed of red brick with a wood modillion eaves cornice. It has three storeys and five windows, each with stone lintels, keystones, and mostly hung sashes containing glazing bars. A band runs between the ground and first floors. The building has a high stone plinth and a classical stone doorcase with three-quarter columns and an entablature featuring two shell ornaments. The recessed door is of six panels. A two-storey, two-window extension was added in the mid-19th century. The garden wall is constructed of stone with old tile coping and a moulded stone doorway with a segmental pediment.

The manor house, together with numbers 23 and 27 to 45 (odd), form a unified group.