Campton Manor

House. Built around 1590 for the Ventris family, with 18th and 19th century additions and alterations. The house is timber frame construction with colourwashed plaster infill; the rear elevation is red brick with flared header decoration. It has a clay tile roof. The original design comprised a hall and cross-wings; the hall is two storeys high, and the cross-wings are two storeys high with attics.

The front elevation has three small, additional gabled projections to the hall block, which are two storeys high and of later date. The left-hand projection replaces the original front door, whilst the central projection, probably 18th century, contains the present front door. The ground floor has paired sash windows to the cross-wings, and two sashes to the hall, all with glazing bars. The left-hand small gable has a leaded single-light window. The first floor has sash windows with glazing bars to each cross-wing, a small single-light to the left-hand gable, two single-light casements with glazing bars to the hall, and a four-light casement with glazing bars to the central gable. The cross-wings have a single leaded light to the attic. A shallow, 20th-century Tudor-arched porch addition is situated at the central gable, with a 20th-century door. The cross-wings have substantial brick chimneys projecting from the side elevations; the right-hand chimney has diagonal stacks. The left-hand cross-wing has a later colourwashed rendered lean-to to the side elevation.

The rear elevation was refaced and extended in the 18th century using red brick. The hall retains a 16th-century projecting red brick stack, alongside a 20th-century single-storeyed addition in front. There is a two-storeyed polygonal bay extension to the left-hand cross-wing, and a rectangular two-storeyed extension to the right-hand cross-wing, in addition to extensions to the hall flanking the chimney, all dating to the 18th century. The rear elevation has a variety of windows, mostly sashes with glazing bars, some of which are original flush sashes. Central windows to the left-hand polygonal bay and two doorways (with 20th-century glazed doors) to the right-hand bay have semi-circular heads. These and flat heads to other windows are framed with gauged brick. The cross-wing attics have two-light casements with glazing bars. A six-panel door in a moulded surround with a pediment on cut brackets is set into a 18th-century hall extension. Moulded wood cornices are also present.

A 19th-century two-storeyed block is located at the right-hand end in a similar style.

Inside, the hall retains an original screen to the east end with carved open strapwork cresting. Tudor-arched moulded stone fireplaces, surmounted by panelling (apparently imported from elsewhere), are present on the ground and first floors of the hall. The ground-floor fireplace displays an incised inscription: “Robert Molar 1640.” A ground-floor rear room within the west cross-wing has original panelling with a vine trail frieze and an ornate carved fire surround. A painted plaque records an unsuccessful attempt on the life of Sir Charles Ventris in 1645. Other rooms contain 18th-century panelling and fire surrounds. An 18th-century staircase is located west of the hall fireplace.