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The Manor House is a house dating from the mid to late 16th century, with additions from the mid 18th century. It is constructed of whitewashed coursed stone to the ground floor, with a rendered timber-frame first floor. The timber framing is herringbone and decorative, visible beneath the render. The roof is tiled, featuring a substantial stone ridge stack with four 17th-century flues arranged diagonally. The building follows an L-shaped plan and has a projecting first floor. The west and north facades each have a two-window range. The ground floor windows on the west, north, and east sides each feature four lights with hollow-chamfered mullions and transom, with a king mullion. A 19th-century canted bay shop front is located on the ground floor to the right of the west facade. The north facade's first-floor windows have five lights, with ovolo-moulded wood mullions and transom, and are supported by moulded brackets. The west facade’s first floor includes an 18th-century bay with a pediment, containing a 19th-century three-light casement to the right. Leaded-light casements are found in the gables to the north and west. A 20th-century panelled and glazed door is set within a 17th-century doorcase on the west side. The jettied first floor and jettied gables have moulded sole-plates and are supported by carved scroll and figurative brackets. Moulded bargeboards are present on the north side, with carved vine-scroll bargeboards on the west. An 18th-century range is situated to the right side, featuring two-light casements on the first floor, a glazed door, and a 20th-century plate-glass shop front on the ground floor. A 20th-century extension is added to the right. An early 18th-century outbuilding range extends to the rear, built of brick in a Dutch bond with flared headers and stone quoins. This incorporates 20th-century garage doors and a shop front. The interior includes ground and first floor rooms with ovolo- and hollow-moulded spine beams with stops. One first-floor room has a fireplace with a four-centred head and moulded surround with carved rosette stops. A timber-framed partition wall is present on the first floor. Original 16th-century roof timbers, including purlins and braces, remain visible. The 18th-century range has stop-chamfered spine beams. The rear outbuilding range has a Queen-post roof and chamfered spine beams with small stepped stops.