Garston Manor

Garston Manor is a country house, now operating as a medical rehabilitation centre. It was originally built in the early 19th century and extended around 1870 for C. Watney and again around 1920 for the Bourne family. The house is constructed of yellow brick with stone dressings and has slate roofs. It combines Neo-Classical and Neo-Georgian architectural styles, with two-storey earlier blocks and a three-storey later block.

The original garden front, which served as the entrance front, features four bays in the centre. This was later extended with seven bays to the left and seven bays to the right. The house is double-depth. A late 19th-century projection was added to the centre of the garden front, featuring outer French doors with gauged brick flat arches and inner sash windows. A balustraded parapet tops a balcony. The first floor has glazing bar sashes with flat arched surrounds, and a stone cornice runs along the top. Gable end stacks are topped with stone caps.

To the left, a late 19th-century block projects, with central French doors set within a stone architrave and a segmental pediment supported by consoles. Flanking sashes have stone sill bands, and the first-floor sashes are smaller, with a tripartite window in the centre. A stone band marks the corbelled cornice. The block to the right has two bays projecting slightly less than the five outer bays, while a link section contains an entrance and small sashes. The ballroom features three 24-pane sashes with key blocked architraves and moulded sills on the ground floor. The first floor windows match those of the earlier block, surmounted by a cornice to a coped parapet with ball finials. Three flat-topped dormers are present.

The three-bay right return has a former entrance with a bracketed hood and key blocked architraves, and flanking sashes. The three-bay left return of the late 19th-century block features tripartite sashes. The current entrance front is largely late 19th-century, with the exception of an early 20th-century block to the left. A central entrance is set within a seven-bay block to the right, mirroring the opposing elevation. Further bays project to the left, with a hipped roof.

A five-bay, three-storey early 20th-century block projects further to the left. Ground floor and first floor central sashes have plain stone surrounds, with a bracketed sill and a lugged architrave, and a segmental pediment to the first-floor window. Recessed panels are in the parapet, which is coped with ball finials. End stacks are present, and the roof is hipped.

The interior includes mosaic paving in the staircase hall, which has a gallery and top lighting. Neo-Classical plasterwork and overdoors are also present. A late 19th-century Persian Room features decorative copper plates on leather doors and a Persian tiled fireplace. An early 19th-century secondary staircase has vase balusters. Garston Manor was known as High Elms until 1895. Later 20th-century additions are considered to be of little special interest.