Sheriffhales Manor

Sheriffhales Manor is a house that dates from the late 16th century and 17th century, with significant restoration around 1952. It features a timber frame with painted timber and rendered infill panels, adorned with decorative concave lozenges and balusters in the porch and cross wing. The roof is covered with 20th-century tiles, including a partial catslide over the rear outshut.

The building has an irregular cruciform plan, consisting of four framed bays on the left, a projecting gabled cross wing with four framed bays off-centre to the right, three framed bays on the right, and a two-storey gabled porch off-centre to the left. It is two storeys high with a garret and an attic cross wing. The porch and cross wing have jettied first floors, plain barge boards with pierced finials, a central ridge stack, an off-centre ridge stack on the cross wing, and a large stone stack at the rear with three square brick shafts. The front has an irregular arrangement of windows: 1:1:1:1:3. The 20th-century windows include leaded mullioned and transomed designs. The porch features a 17th-century four-centred nailed door, which has four arched panels and two square panels below with raised lozenges, framed by a guilloche enriched architrave. There are also 20th-century French casements to the right.

Inside, the manor boasts a restored three-flight 17th-century square well staircase with square newels, bulbous finials, an arcaded balustrade, and a moulded handrail. There are two fireplace overmantels with three bays and arched panels, one of which is flanked by tapered Ionic pilasters. The interior also features re-ordered panelling and queen strut roof trusses.

Historically, the Rev. John Woodhouse, a Puritan Divine, operated an Academy or Provincial University at this location from around 1675 to 1696.