The Old Manor House

The Old Manor House is an early 18th-century house constructed of brown/red brick with rubbed brick dressings, and a pantiled roof with raised stone coped gables, kneelers, and two gable stacks. It is located in Scotter, originally at Kirton Road. The house is L-shaped, with a five-bay, two-storey front that includes cellars and garrets. The central doorway is framed by an eared surround and doorcase featuring fluted and rusticated columns, a pulvinated frieze with fishscale decoration, brackets, and a dentilated pediment. A decorated panel sits above the centre of the door, flanked by pairs of glazing bar sashes. The first floor has five similar windows, all with flat splayed arches featuring raised ashlar keystones.

To the rear is a two-storey, four-bay wing constructed in Flemish bond with tumbled gables, bearing a plaque inscribed "Anno Mundi 5710," which represents the date 1706 according to Dr. Usher’s calculation of the date of the Creation. This wing is of late 18th century date. The five bays are arranged one:three:one, with the central three bays contained within linked semi-circular arches and impost blocks. A rear wing features an eight-panelled door with a fanlight to the right and a 20th-century window in a blocked opening to the left. The first floor mirrors the three-bay treatment, flanked by single glazing bar sashes with semi-circular arches.

The main block’s dining room contains cupboards flanking the fireplace, each with semi-circular heads, architraves with keyblocks, and eight-panelled double doors featuring hemispherical tops, eared and shouldered surrounds. The walls are finished with plaster panels to full height and include dado rails. Full shutters are present. Doors and architraves are dentillated, as are the cornice and central beam. The hall also has a dentillated frieze and wooden panelling. The drawing room features panels in the fireplace wall and alcoves on either side. A very fine dog-leg staircase rises in the hall, with three balusters to each tread, a fluted and knopped handrail, and an intarsia star to the terminal. The newel posts are fully fluted, with panelled sides and fluted pilasters. Above the stairs are further dentillated cornices and an oval plaster panel with a star motif. A first-floor room has a full cornice and two cupboard doors in panelled reveals. Within the rear wing’s interior are simply stopped spine beams with run-out stops.