The Manor House

The Manor House is a house dating back to the 15th century, likely built for the Alington family. The main hall range was substantially rebuilt in the early 17th century, and alterations were made in the late 17th century. It is constructed with a timber frame, brick sills, roughcast render on the front, and red brick casing to the ground floor. The roofs are steep, originally covered with old red tiles, although the eastern half of the hall range now has a slate roof.

The building comprises a hall range and two crosswings situated at the northwest angle of a crossroads, facing south. The upper floor of the west crosswing, the hall range itself, and the upper storey of the porch all have jettied overhangs. Two diagonal square shafts rise through the rear roofslopes of the hall range. The eastern wing has an external chimney with two diagonal shafts on its eastern side. A lean-to cellar is located at the rear of the east wing. Windows are arranged in pairs on each floor of the hall range, with 2-light casements; a 3-light casement is situated to the left of the porch. The windows have renewed lattice-leaded glazing. The gable of the east wing also features 2-light casements on each floor, and smaller 2-light windows with ovolo molding are present on each side of the lower storey of the open porch. The main entrance is an old, moulded plank door set within a heavy, moulded frame with ovolo and fillet details and jamb stops. The porch ceiling exposes dragon-beams.

The interior reveals an exposed timber frame with jowled posts, curved braces to the tie-beams on the first floor, paired tension braces in the front and side walls of the wings, and clasped purlin roofs. The west wing has a single, undivided first floor, while the two-bay east wing has had its tie-beam removed. Above the hall is a chamber with high, blocked 2-light ovolo windows flanking the front window, and it features an ovolo moulded axial beam. A stone fireplace in this chamber has a four-centred opening with double ovolo moulded jambs and high stops, embellished with foliage and shields in the spandrels.

When the old service rooms in the west wing were converted into a kitchen, a larder was added to the western extension, and a staircase was included. The parlour in the east wing contains a fireplace with a four-centred, chamfered brick opening with canted rear corners, and a staircase is located in a rear bay. Notably, extensive remains of wall paintings were uncovered in five rooms. Early 16th-century fragmentary black letter inscriptions are found in the chamber above the kitchen. Later 16th or early 17th-century scenes are present in the parlour and other first-floor rooms. The parlour's decoration includes a frieze of black-letter text in elaborate frames above walls of geometric and floral patterns. A chamber above the parlour displays a shallow frieze of squares with four-lobed ornaments above a wall with a diamond and scroll pattern containing a Tudor rose. The color scheme utilizes black and white with touches of green and pale red. Another chamber in the upper part of the porch has a pedimented architectural composition on its north wall.