The Manse

The Manse is a house dating from the late 16th century, with alterations made in the early 17th century. It is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof covered with handmade red clay tiles. The building has three bays facing south, with a stack located in the middle bay against the front wall, and a one-bay extension from the 17th century to the right. There is also a 17th-century rear wing at the right end. The house is two storeys high with attics, while the rear wing is one storey with attics.

The front features a three-window range of 18th-century three-light windows that have been restored, along with two prominent gables and a central gabled dormer, each containing one restored 18th-century two-light window. The entrance door has six fielded panels and a shallow hood supported by scrolled brackets. The structure includes grouped diagonal shafts, jowled posts, and close studding with tension braces set inside the studs. Some weathering is visible on the right surface of the studding of the original right wall, which is now an internal partition.

Inside, there is a large wood-burning hearth with a replaced mantel beam facing right, and a blocked hearth facing left. The original construction features chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue-plus-bar stops, while the right extension has lamb's tongue stops and plain joists of horizontal section. A late 18th-century half-round pine cupboard behind the stack has fluted pilasters and a dentilled cornice. The rear wallplate shows an edge-halved and bridled scarf joint, and there are diamond mortices and mullions from unglazed windows. On the first floor of the rear wall, there is a 17th-century two-light window with arched heads and ovolo mouldings.

The original attic floor retains chamfered beams with lamb's tongue stops and rebated floorboards. The roof structure features clasped purlins with arched wind braces, and some medieval rafters have been reused. The feature gables were added after the original construction, but an original unglazed window with diamond mullions remains in one gable of the attic. Additionally, on the upper storey of the rear wing, there is a late 18th-century cast iron ducknest grate.