The Manor House

The Manor House is a house dating from 1795, located on the west side of High Street, Sawtry. It is constructed of local gault brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with paler bricks used on the front wall and a more random pattern on the end and rear walls. The roof is tiled, with a mansard form and ridge stacks between the front and kitchen wing at the rear, and a projecting stack to the south gable end. The house is arranged in an L-shape, with two storeys and an attic, featuring three dormers.

The symmetrical front facade has three first-floor windows, each a sixteen-pane flush frame sash with narrow glazing bars, though the central window is likely a later addition. The central doorway is topped by a triangular pediment with a foliate motif carved into the tympanum, sitting above a dentil cornice and frieze which features fluting, urns, and a central open shell. Flanking the doorway are demi-Ionic fluted pilasters to the architrave. The front door is made up of four panels, with the upper two panels containing large round bosses and pendant husk garlands. A doorway in the rear wall, opposite the main entrance, has a moulded surround and a raised and fielded panelled door that has been reversed.

Inside, the entrance hall retains its original dentil cornice and a stucco ceiling roundel featuring tendril foliage within a bolection moulded border. Raised and fielded panelled doors lead to rooms, one to the former dining room also features beading to the panels. The original staircase has four flights and two landings; the balustrade has been replaced, but the shaped tread ends remain. The dining room has a fine Adam-style stucco ceiling depicting an eight-pointed star containing festoon husks, ribbons, pendants, medallions, a roundel centrepiece of running foliage and flowers, serpentine foliage with leaves and daisies, roses, and pinks, all within a border of festoons of husks and a bolection moulding. The dining room's cornice features bands of egg and dart and anthemion plasterwork. On the first floor, one bedroom retains its original cornice of beading, foliate paterae, fluting and a cyma moulding above a narrow frieze of acanthus and mask medallions. A date of 1795 is carved into a beam in the roof.