Manor Farmhouse

Manor Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the 15th century, with alterations from the late 16th or early 17th century and the 18th century. It was renovated around 1950 and extended to the south. The building is timber-framed with roughcast render and has old plain tiled and 20th-century tiled roofs.

The farmhouse features a tall 17th-century stack to the left of the cross wing and two 20th-century stacks on the extension. There is a gable end stack to the east of the cross wing, made of red brick in English bond, with a rectangular plan, offsets, and two diagonal shafts topped with a cornice. The structure consists of one storey and an attic open hall range, along with a two-storey jettied cross wing to the north, comprising four timber-framed bays. A small two-storey 17th-century projecting wing is located to the north, with a staircase projection at the rear and the original cross passage entrance. The farmhouse has three ground floor casement windows, one casement attic window, and four gabled dormer windows, along with two entrances featuring a 20th-century door and a panelled door to the right.

Inside, there is a central truss of the open hall with plain and hollow-chamfered posts that extend over curved solid braces to the soffit of the tie beam. The crown post has four straight braces to the collar and purlin. An inserted stack and floor show evidence of a mullioned hall window and grooves for shutters, with similar windows in the cross wing. The staircase was rebuilt around 1950, incorporating original materials and shaped finials. The cross wing has a complete crown post roof, stop-chamfered ceiling beams, and 17th-century sealed ovolo mullioned windows.

The ground floor fireplace is made of clunch, square-headed, with some original ogee-moulding, while the first floor fireplace features a segmental plastered brick arch and an overmantle with a simple pediment and boss enrichment. There are also some early plank doors and a resited door head.

Historically, the farmhouse was formerly known as Suttons, one of two estates held by the Bishop of Ely, which was sold in 1538 to St John's College, Cambridge.