Mans Cross House

Mans Cross House is a house dating back to the 16th century, with alterations made around 1900. It is constructed with a timber frame, plastered walls, and a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The original 2-bay section was built in the mid-16th century, aligned northwest-southeast. A 4-bay range was added to the southeast around 1570, creating an L-shaped plan with a southeast-facing chimney stack at the junction. A single bay was added to the southwest around 1600, forming a T-plan layout. A single-storey extension with a catslide roof sits in the western angle, dating from the 19th century, and a conservatory was added in the 20th century. A single-storey lean-to extension is present in the north angle, also dating from the 20th century. The house is two storeys high. A doorway, around 1900, is situated within a rustic porch with a tiled gabled roof. On the ground floor are three casement windows dating from around 1900, one 18th-century 3-light window with a wrought-iron casement, and a pair of late 16th-century high windows featuring reproduction mullions. On the first floor are one 19th-century cast iron casement window, and four 3-light windows, appearing to be of 18th-century design but considerably restored and altered. The northwest elevation of the front range includes a long, high window from the late 16th century with ovolo mullions. Internally, the house features jowled posts, heavy studding with curved braces trenched to the inside, edge-halved and bridled scarfs in the wallplates, chamfered joists of horizontal section with step stops, and a clasped purlin roof. The main ground floor hearth has been rebuilt in stone, but the chimney stack above remains original.