Manor Farmhouse

Manor Farmhouse is a timber-framed farmhouse, dating from circa 1600, with extensions from the early 19th century and later alterations. The farmhouse is situated in Lee Brockhurst, Herefordshire. The main structure is roughcast timber framing, with painted brick and sandstone additions, and machine and plain tile roofs. It is arranged in an L-shape, consisting of a hall range of two and a half framed bays to the right and a slightly projecting gabled two-bay cross-wing to the left. An early 19th century brick bay extends the hall range to the right, and a mid-19th century stone addition is set into the rear angle. The hall range is one storey and attic height, while the cross-wing is two storeys and attic.

The fenestration is primarily from the mid-19th century, with a three-light casement window to the right of the hall range and a contemporary gabled eaves dormer directly above. A small first-floor window sits above an ornamental gabled wooden porch with a four-panel door, the top panels of which are now glazed. The cross-wing features a casement window on each floor, with a jettied attic supported on rendered corner brackets. A leaded casement window is located on the ground floor of the 19th-century addition, and the red brick ridge stack, originally at the gable end, is positioned at the junction between the hall range and the 19th-century addition; the addition also possesses its own integral end stack with dentilled eaves. A late 19th-century integral lateral stack is situated to the left of the cross-wing, alongside a contemporary end stack on the rear gable.

At the time of resurvey in January 1986, square panelling and close studding with wattle and daub and red brick infill were exposed to the left, first-floor wall of the cross-wing. A 19th-century brick lean-to is attached to the right of the early 19th-century addition, and the porch is marked by a Salop Fire Insurance plate.

The interior retains parts of the original timber frame, including to cross-walls, with square panels and close studding, straight tension braces, deep-chamfered spine and cross beams, and chamfered joists, including on the first floor of the cross-wing. There is an infilled inglenook fireplace in the hall range, with a stepped stack on the first floor. The front ground-floor room of the cross-wing includes an 18th-century wall cupboard with H-hinges, plus a 19th-century cupboard flanking the fireplace on the left wall; the rear room has 17th-century wainscot panelling. Original 17th-century panelled doors, some with L-hinges, remain on both floors, along with 19th-century cast-iron grates in several fireplaces on the first floor. The staircase, with plain stick balusters, is likely 19th century. Contemporary dairy fittings and stone-flagged floors are found in the 19th-century addition to the rear. The cross-wing has a collar and tie beam roof in two bays, with double purlins and V-struts from the collars, while the hall range has a similar roof with raking struts from the collars. Historical records indicate that the cross-wing was built before the hall range.