Manor House

This is a manor house with origins in the 17th century, but it was extensively remodelled in the early 18th century and again in the early 19th century when the two cross-wings were added. The house is constructed of red brick and yellow brick, and has an early 19th-century mansard roof covered in tiles, with ridge stacks. The main range dates back to the early 17th century, with its garden facade remodelled in the early 18th century. The brickwork predominantly uses pink brick stretchers with red brick headers. Door and window surrounds are detailed with gauged red brick. The house has two storeys and attics. Three dormers, with leaded roofs, are visible; the central dormer is pedimented and has an oval window with glazing bars. There is one sash window and one dummy window on the facade. Moulded wood eaves, a cornice, and a band of three courses of gauged brickwork run between the storeys. The central window is a Venetian window from the early 18th century, featuring a raised key block and hung sashes, flanked by four flush frame hung sashes of twelve panes each, set in open boxing and painted white. A central doorway has an early 19th-century reeded doorcase with boss enrichments at the corners, and possibly a reset, early 18th-century flat hood. The cross-wings are built of gault brick and are also two storeys and attics in height, each with one dormer featuring a leaded roof. Each gable end has one sash window and one dummy window. A further early 19th-century reeded doorcase is present on a doorway in the right-hand cross-wing, also with a flat hood, potentially from the early 18th century and reset. This cross-wing also has a two-storey canted bay. The rear of the house features mainly 19th-century service wings built of yellow brick, with some clunch. Inside, evidence of the original 17th-century house remains in the main range, including stop-chamfered ceiling beams and a fine early 17th-century overmantel above an inglenook hearth. The overmantel is divided into two bays separated by a female herm figure and flanked by two male herm figures, with a frieze depicting vine leaves, a dog, a deer, and other hunting motifs. Two rooms in the main range, and one on the ground floor of the right-hand cross-wing, feature early 17th-century square, sunken panelling. The panelling in the cross-wing has been reset and incorporates a number of carved overmantels with arcading, some inlaid and painted panels, all dating from the early 17th century. The other cross-wing displays raised and fielded panelling in three heights.