Woore Manor

Woore Manor is a house dating from the early 19th century, with later 19th and early 20th century alterations and additions to the rear. It is constructed of red brick with a hipped graded slate roof. The house has a rendered plinth, a flat stone string course, and a moulded eaves cornice. A central integral brick stack is located at the rear.

The main front has a 2:1:2 bay arrangement, featuring glazing bar sashes with grey sandstone cills and lintels. The central entrance features a pair of three-panelled doors set within a wooden Ionic doorcase. The doorcase has reeded columns with large volute capitals, supporting sections of an entablature and an open triangular pediment. There is a wreathed radial fanlight above the doors, and two stone steps lead up to the doorway.

The left-hand return front displays two first-floor sashes and a 20th-century sundial, along with a ground-floor tripartite sash with reeded pilaster strips and cornice. Three stone steps lead up to this elevation. A two-storey rear wing has two brick stacks and two flat-topped dormers with globe finials. An early 20th-century block, dating to about 1914, is positioned in the angle of the house.

The interior entrance hall has moulded ground and first floor features with mutules, and a central plaster ceiling rose. A dog-leg oak staircase, dating from the early 19th century, rises from the entrance hall, featuring an open string, cut brackets, stick balusters with beaded corners, a ramped moulded handrail, and a wreathed columular foot newel. The first-floor balustrade extends to the front. A small flight of steps leads to the rear wing from the half landing. A blocked or blind depressed archway, incorporating Corinthian columns, is found on the half landing.

A ground-floor room on the left-hand side features a plaster frieze and cornice with acanthus and egg and dart enrichment, along with an enriched soffit. This room also contains a mid-19th-century fireplace with a carved oak-leaf ornament to the surround and egg and dart enrichment to the inner surround. The right-hand ground-floor room has a cornice with acanthus enrichment and a late 18th-century marble fireplace with carved acanthus ornament to the inner surround, pilaster strips with anthemion ornament, a frieze featuring putti, garlands, and a central panel illustrating a Bacchanalian scene, and a cornice. A pair of glazed wall cupboards are also present.

Bedrooms have moulded cornices and early 19th-century fireplaces. Reused 17th-century panelling is found in the ground-floor rear room. The early 19th-century front range consistently features panelled window shutters and 6-panelled doors with moulded architraves. Woore Manor has been the home of the Kenrick family, as recorded in 1623.