Bletchley Manor

Bletchley Manor is a farmhouse dating from the mid-17th century, with alterations and additions made in the late 19th century. The building is timber frame construction, with rendered surfaces. The front and rear walls have brickwork that appears to be imitation timber framing. It has a three-span plain tile roof with gables facing the front.

The original house comprises two parallel ranges of framed bays, with a later addition to the southwest. The structure is two storeys and an attic, with the addition rising to two storeys. The north-west front has a brick stack in the left-hand valley, a brick end stack to the central range, and a right-hand addition with two external lateral brick stacks. The front has three windows: 18th-century glazing bar sash windows to the left with exposed window boxes, wooden attic casements, and a first-floor wooden cross window and a ground-floor six-pane sash window on the right-hand addition. A central 19th-century half-glazed door, consisting of two flush panels and nine panes, is protected by a gabled timber-framed porch with a moulded architrave. The left-hand return front features leaded wooden cross windows dating from around 1700. An attached outbuilding, now a garage, has a large tapered square external brick end stack.

The interior retains exposed square-panel framing on the first floor, with short corner braces and wattle and daub infill containing horsehair and straw. Numerous mid-17th to late 17th century fixtures and fittings remain. A ground-floor front room on the left is fitted with 17th or 17th-style oak panelling, including a moulded cornice, moulded beam, and a fireplace with a bolection-moulded surround and cornice. A door with seven raised and fielded panels and H-L hinges is also present. A ground-floor rear room on the left has a deep-chamfered beam. The late 17th-century staircase features a closed string, large turned balusters, a moulded handrail, and a square newel post. A first-floor front room on the left has painted 17th-century panelling, a chamfered beam, and a fireplace with a bolection-moulded surround and moulded cornice. The roof structure consists of two bays with single purlins, straight wind braces, and doorways with chamfered reveals. Original panelled doors and old oak boards are found throughout. The house contains heraldic stained glass depicting Hill and Forster, dated 1639.