Caxton Manor House

Caxton Manor House, originally a manor house and later The George Coaching Inn, dates to the late 16th century, with a substantial refronting in the early 18th century. Further alterations were made in the 19th and 20th centuries. The house is constructed of red brick with steeply pitched slate and plain tile roofs. It is two storeys with attics and cellars. The main range faces the street, with two rear turrets, possibly for staircases and closets, and a central carriageway. A rear wing, at an obtuse angle to the south, was partly demolished and rebuilt, with a 20th-century single-storey range added.

The symmetrical facade of the main range has seven bays, with the central three bays slightly recessed. The original carriageway now serves as the entrance, with a raised floor and approached by stone steps. It features a 20th-century door and sidelights within an elliptical brick arch with a stone keyblock and imposts. There are six early 18th-century twelve-paned hung sash windows on the ground floor (with one replacing a 19th-century doorway to the south), and seven 19th-century hung sash windows on the first floor, all set within cambered brick arches. Four hipped dormer windows have iron casements. The plain parapet is topped with stone copings, interrupted by a brick clock turret dated '1887 VR', featuring a wooden bell canopy, pyramidal roof, and weathervane. Two ridge stacks and an end stack are located on the right-hand side.

Sealed late 16th-century chamfered-mullioned brick windows are visible in the side and rear elevations, some retaining original plaster rendering, alongside later window insertions. A particularly fine twelve-light mullioned window is found on the rear elevation above the carriageway. A 20th-century entrance to the rear of the carriageway incorporates panelled oak doors and multi-light Tudor windows designed by Major J Gedge.

The interior includes chamfered ceiling beams and two large inglenook hearths in a south-facing room and the kitchen. Two cellars flank the carriageway, each with arched recesses and entrances from the rear turrets; the north cellar features moulded cross-beams. 19th-century staircases are in the rear turrets, along with 18th- and 19th-century partitions and doorcases. The Manor House faces the original market site, and the rear wing is positioned alongside a boundary that historically followed the strips of the open fields.