Felton Butler Manor

Felton Butler Manor is a farmhouse dating from circa 1600, with a mid-17th century addition and remodelling in the early 19th century. The building is timber framed with painted brick nogging on a dressed red sandstone plinth. Parts are rendered and others refaced or rebuilt in painted brick, all with slate roofs. The framing exhibits close studding with a middle rail to the ground floor of the cross wing, and square panels to the hall range and first floor of the cross wing, extending from the sole plate to the wall plate. It includes long, straight tension braces. The plan is a T-shape, with a two-bay hall range and a projecting cross wing of two or three bays.

The south-east front features pierced decorative bargeboards with finials. A square brick stack is located on the cross wing, featuring a toothed-brick cornice with six truncated star-shaped shafts, and an integral brick lateral stack to the rear of the hall range, also with a toothed-brick cornice and a pair of 19th century square shafts. An integral brick corner stack is found at the rear of the cross wing with a 19th century brick shaft. The right-hand part of the hall range was rebuilt in the early 19th century, with eaves raised, and includes a first-floor two-light casement, a ground-floor three-light casement, and a blocked 17th century first-floor three-light window with square mullions. A centrally positioned, circa 1600, timber-framed gabled porch has been refaced on the ground floor in painted ashlar with a chamfered Tudor archway, moulded cornice and battlemented top, containing an early 19th century five-panelled door with moulded architrave, a first-floor two-light casement, and a tie-beam truss with raking struts. The right-hand gable end has a first-floor three-light casement and a ground-floor square bay with three-light French casements and a lean-to roof. A two-storey early 19th century addition is present at the rear, featuring glazing bar sashes and casements. The cross wing has a pair of French casements, a two-light first-floor casement, and a two-light attic casement with a tie-beam truss featuring two collars and queen struts. The left-hand return front is underbuilt in brick. The rear gable has a cambered collar and tie-beam truss with queen struts and V-struts. A later 17th-century wing adjoins the left-hand side, built in timber frame with square panels, angle braces, and a graded slate roof. This wing features a first-floor 19th century three-light wooden casement and inserted 20th century windows and doors. The left-hand gable end of the 17th-century wing has been rebuilt in dressed red sandstone with a tie-beam truss featuring two collars and V-struts. A catslide roof covers the outshut at the rear.

The interior includes a partly inspected early 19th century staircase with an open string, stick balusters, and a wreathed handrail, along with chamfered ceiling beams and stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops.