Manor Farmhouse

Manor Farmhouse is a timber-frame farmhouse dating to circa 1630, with a brick skin applied to the north elevation around 1780, and a full-height rear outshut added in circa 1860. Further alterations occurred in the 20th century. The construction combines timber frame, brick, and flint, with pantiled roofs featuring a brick ridge and a right-hand end stack. The plan follows a lobby-entrance configuration with a parlour, hall, and service area arrangement.

The two-storey, four-window north elevation is divided into three sections by four full-height pilasters, decorated with reconstituted stone strings at the eaves. The central bay features a door within a bolection doorcase, complete with panelled jambs, scrolled consoles supporting an entablature hood with dentils, and a six-panel raised and fielded door. A 3/3 horned sash window is to the right of the door, with similar sashes in the outer bays. Skewback arches above the windows show inner edges truncated from a prior narrowing in the 19th century. An 8/8 unhorned sash window sits above the door, with 3-light casements from the 1950s in the remaining first-floor openings. A stack is positioned over the door, with an internal gable-end stack to the west.

The rear elevation incorporates a full-height outshut from the west gable to east of the stack, constructed of flint with brick dressings and partial rendering. A late 20th-century conservatory is attached. A 10/10 unhorned sash window is visible on the first floor of the outshut wall, alongside two late 20th-century light casements. A single-storey 20th-century outshut adjoins the east side.

Inside, the former parlour on the east end retains a chamfered spine beam extending to a bridging beam above the fireplace, which itself has a plain cambered bressumer. A two-panel door with raised fielding from the late 18th century leads from the entrance lobby.

The entrance lobby contains a winder staircase. The main room to the west of the stack, originally the hall, exhibits a chamfered bridging beam with tongue stops. The joists are also chamfered and have tongue stops. A 19th-century partition defines the west end, while a wide inglenook fireplace was rebuilt in the late 20th century under a cambered and chamfered bressumer. The west rooms, formerly service areas, have a chamfered bridging beam and joists with similar stops. Mortise holes suggest the original partition separated these rooms into two different sizes.

The first floor displays the heads of splayed principal studs, linked by chamfered tie beams with tongue stops. A truss west of the stack features mortise holes in the tie beam and studs designed to accommodate substantial arched braces. A passageway partition was inserted on the south side in the 19th century. The room over the parlour features cruciform bridging beams and a late 18th-century two-panel door with raised fielded panels.

The roof consists of principals, secondaries, and two tiers of purlins, with the upper tier clasped to the collars and diminished principals, and the lower tier butted into the principals. Curved wind bracing is visible in some bays.