Sheene Manor

Sheene Manor is a manor house dating back to the mid-16th century, with substantial extensions and alterations made in the 17th and 19th centuries. It was refronted in the 19th century. The house is timber-framed and has plaster rendering with stucco rustication to the corners. It has tiled roofs with 19th-century bargeboarding, except for around 1840 slates on a small addition. The west range has a hipped roof. There are two external side stacks on the east side, one dated 1656 (now worn), made of red brick, with rectangular shafts on a rectangular base. A similar stack is located on the south side of the west range. The original plan consisted of an east-west hall range with a service wing at the rear. The hall range has been extended to the west, with 18th and 19th-century outbuildings adjoining on the north. The house is two and two-and-a-half storeys high.

The front features a two-storey 19th-century porch in the re-entrant angle, with a gabled roof and bargeboarding. A doorway is within the porch, and above it is an oriel window of a similar date containing reset stained glass, dating from the 17th century, displaying the arms of Crouch impaling Pyke. A two-storey bay window is located to the right-hand side of the front elevation, with each light featuring trefoil cusping to the head. The outbuildings to the north are also timber-framed and rendered with a tiled and asbestos roof and feature a red brick ridge stack. A small addition, dating from around 1840, is on the northeast side of the house, with plastered walls and a low-pitch slate roof, incorporating a doorway with an original architrave and panelled door.

A walled garden, constructed of red brick with a dentil cornice, adjoins the house on the east side and dates from the 17th century. The interior of the house was not inspected. The house sits on a moated site and is historically associated with Carhusiaq Priory at Sheene in Surrey, which acquired the manor in the 15th century. Following the Dissolution, the manor was sold to Sir Robert Chester of Royston. Parts of the house are believed to date from this period. In 1648, the house was purchased by George Pyke of Baythorne (Essex), and his granddaughter later married John Crouch. In 1810, the manor house and Sheene Mill were sold to Joshua Fitch.