The Manor House

The Manor House is a house dating back to the 16th century, with additions from later periods. It is constructed of flint and brick, with a pantile roof. The building has a T-shaped plan, with a projecting bay. The west range, of two storeys, has a south front of flint, featuring two bays. The ground floor has a three-light ovolo mullion window which was previously a taller, transomed window that has been cut down. The upper floor contains a 20th-century leaded mullioned window and a three-light ovolo mullion window. A full-height gabled wing, also of flint with brick quoins, projects southwards, containing the staircase. An off-centre four-centred arched brick doorway on the south face is now blocked. A small blocked window is visible at 1 1/2 storey height, with brick reveals, and a small casement with brick reveals is located on the upper storey. An additional bay to the east is rendered and contains the current entrance, with double doors of three panels each and a flat hood over. A first-floor sash window with glazing bars is present, along with an attic dormer. A third wing, dating from around 1700, projects southwards, featuring two bays and two storeys, constructed of brick with quoins. This wing contains sash windows with glazing bars, set beneath rubbed and gauged flat brick arches with moulded reveals. It has a platband, a wooden cornice with modillions, and an oversailing hipped roof. The left-hand return of this range has its first bay openings blocked, while the second has 19th-century sash windows with glazing bars. The third bay features an ovolo moulded two-light mullioned and transomed window to the ground floor with 20th-century glazing, and a 20th-century leaded mullioned and transomed window to the upper floor. The last two bays have 19th-century casements to the ground floor, and a large blocked opening to the upper floor, suggesting a change in floor level from the main range. The rear elevation of the flint range has six bays and two storeys, containing sash windows with glazing bars, some renewed in the 1980s, under flat rubbed and gauged brick arches with raised brick keystones. A wooden four-centred arched doorway with a castellated lintel is located on the left side of this range, with the light above now blocked. The interior of the flint range includes cambered tie beams with notch details on the top and in the rafters suggesting a former crown-post roof. Numerous fireplaces and doors were brought into the house in the 1980s, augmenting some existing 18th-century panelling. Two wooden columns have been introduced to the entrance hall, and a late 18th-century dog-leg stair has been fitted, with some balusters added in the 1980s.