Resthaven The Manse

Resthaven The Manse is a house dating from around 1560, with alterations made in the 19th century. It features a timber frame that is partly clad with brickwork and is plastered, topped with a roof of handmade red plain tiles. The main range consists of three bays facing northwest towards Church Street, with one axial stack. There is a one-bay rear wing on the right end, which has a stack at the junction. A 19th-century single-storey lean-to extension is located at the rear left, covered with a slate roof, and there is an early 19th-century two-bay wing at the rear center.

The house has two storeys with attics and a three-window range of early 19th-century sashes with 16 lights made of crown glass. In a gabled dormer, there is one 19th-century horizontal sash with 12 lights. A plain 20th-century door leads to a through-passage. On the first floor, there is a late 19th-century softwood fascia carved in an early 16th-century style featuring a continuous folded leaf design, although it has been damaged by sand-blasting.

The right return facing Albert Place has, on the ground floor, one early 19th-century sash with 12 lights, another with 16 lights in a segmental arch, and on the first floor, two early 19th-century sashes with 12 lights and one with 16 lights in a segmental arch; there is also a 20th-century sash in the attic gable. A 19th/20th-century half-glazed door with a gabled canopy, ornamental slates, and brackets is present, along with a similar carved fascia. The late 19th or early 20th-century bargeboards display a simple geometric design with chamfers and piercings.

Inside, there are jowled posts and moulded transverse beams with roll and step stops. The moulded axial beams are partly boxed, and the joists have a horizontal section with a single roll moulding at the arrises, with some being plain. The house has an underbuilt full-length jetty facing Church Street. In the axial stack, there is one 19th-century hearth and one blocked hearth. The stack at the left end, which is shared with number 52 Church Street, has a wide wood-burning hearth that has been reduced for a smaller grate. A 17th-century inserted ceiling is present above the first floor. The roof structure includes butt-purlins with arched wind-bracing. An early 19th-century quarter-turn stair leads from the first floor to the attic, featuring turned newels, a straight handrail, and stick balusters.