Old Manor Farm House

House. Dating back to 1624, as indicated by a carved inscription on the stair wing, Old Manor Farm House has been altered in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is timber-framed on a brick base, with rendered exterior walls and steeply pitched tiled roofs, with a hipped design on the main block. The house follows an "F" plan, comprising a large two-cell lobby entry, with kitchen and stair wings to the rear. It is two storeys and has an attic. The left or "hall" bay is significantly larger than the right or "parlour" bay. A plinth runs along the base. The front entrance is located to the right of centre, featuring a recessed plank door with a three-pane rectangular fanlight and an 18th-century semi-circular hood supported by carved brackets. There are six-light, 19th-century mullion and transom flush frame casement windows throughout. A substantial red brick ridge stack, with an oversailing cap, is situated to the right of centre. The right end wall is blank, while the left end has a ten-light mullion and transom casement and a hipped dormer window. A single-bay kitchen wing extends to the rear left; its return side features a recessed plank door with a semi-circular hood matching the front facade, along with four-light flush frame casement windows. The rear gable end displays exposed plates and an original external red brick stack, tapering with crowsteps to the right, connected to conjoined diagonal shafts with a moulded base and oversailing cap, constructed outwards to the left side. The rear centre features a gabled stair wing with a leaded four-light window on the upper floor. Above this window is carved timber inscribed: "W.L. 1624/So God May Still Me Blesse/I Care The Lesse/Let Enuy Say Her Worst/AND AFTER BURST". A moulded bressumer supports a projecting gable resting on two trumpeting satyr-carved brackets. To the right of the stair wing is a later glazed outshut, and to the left, a ground floor six-light casement. The interior of the "hall" contains a large fireplace with a stop-chamfered lintel, a mantelpiece with carved brackets and scrollwork, a gadrooned cornice, and flanking 17th-century cupboards. Axial and cross-axial ovolo moulded bearers are present. There is a newel staircase, along with a panelled fitted corner cupboard in the "parlour”. A kitchen wing features an ogee stop chamfered bearer. The house was formerly known as the Big House or Freeman's and is believed to have been the manor house of Burnels.