Manor Farmhouse

Farmhouse dating from around 1581 with 19th-century alterations and rebuilds. A large wing on the east side was demolished in the 19th century. The building features a painted timber frame with painted lath and plaster infill to the original frame, with brick painted to imitate timber framing at ground-floor level and to later wings. Plain-tile roofs with projecting verges, 19th-century integral brick stack to the left and ridge stack to the right. The complex plan comprises a main range and cross wing with later projecting and adjoining wings.

The exterior has two storeys plus attic and cellar. The south-east front displays a gable truss to the left with a straight tie beam, herringbone pattern raking struts and collar, with a later leaded casement cut in. There is a rectangular framed first floor with a 3-light leaded mullion window and moulded bressumer, and a 3-light mullion and transom ground-floor window above a brick segmental arched cellar opening. At the centre is a projecting gabled entrance outshut with a gable truss of straight tie beam, collar and vertical struts over square framing at first-floor level. All framing includes carved braces forming an enriched cusped lozenge pattern. A single leaded casement is cut into the first-floor framing with a brick segmental arched entrance doorway and 19th-century oak boarded door below. Return sides of the outshut repeat the gable pattern. The main range to the right has a leaded 3-light mullion window over a mullion and transom ground-floor window. A large attic dormer with single leaded casement is set in close studding below a straight tie beam, collar and vertical struts framing carved braces in concave lozenge patterns. To the far right is the gable-end of a wing rebuilt in brick with a single leaded 4-light mullion window over a mullion and transom window. The original first-floor bressumer remains retained within the brickwork, as does the straight tie beam and herringbone pattern framing in the gable truss.

The south-west side has leaded 3-light casements at each floor set in square framing, two panels high at first floor with brick below. The rear shows a large main range gable with collar and vertical struts, straight tie beam with square framing below and moulded first-floor bressumer, all infilled with herringbone pattern braces. There is a leaded casement in the attic framing and a leaded 3-light casement at first floor, with a mullion and transom window set in ground-floor brick. The centre is now covered by a painted brick lean-to outshut. To the left is the rear gable of a brick wing retaining a herringbone-framed gable truss, with lower floors covered by a later projecting gabled single-storey and attic brick extension wing.

The north-east side is a 2-storey, 2-window range of 3-light casements with a single 4-light casement below flanking a central 20th-century door under a projecting gabled porch canopy. A projecting gabled wing and central section features an overhung gabled porch and large gabled dormer. The lower part of the left wing is now brick and painted, but the post-and-panel supports below the originally overhung upper portion remain visible beneath the brick. The remainder of the house is of post-and-panel construction.

The interior shows various alterations, with some good doors bearing 18th-century brass furniture and a small original oak staircase. The main range is spanned by a double-purlin roof.