The Manor House

The Manor House, originally the Parsonage in 1741, is a house dating from the early 17th century with later additions. It is constructed with rendered and colourwashed walls, and has a black unglazed pantile roof. The building is arranged in an L-shape, with a wing facing the road, comprising six bays across two storeys and an attic. Gable parapets top the structure.

The street facade features a gabled forward wing on the left, with a removed gable end stack, and a ground floor sash window to its return. Three small, gabled projections are set into bays two, four, and six, with lean-to ground floor infill sections in bays three and five. A six-panelled door, with leaded upper panels, is located in the middle projection, above which is a renewed flush sash window. Renewed flush sashes with glazing bars are present to the ground and first floors of the right projection. A fixed window with glazing bars sits on the first floor of the left projection, while renewed two-light casements with glazing bars occupy the ground and first floors of bays three and five.

The garden front has three bays plus a chimney bay between bays one and two. Ball finials adorn the base of the gable parapets, and there are axial and gable end stacks. The front incorporates three first-floor sashes, three tripartite ground-floor sashes, and a tall casement with margin lights to the chimney bay. A part-glazed double-leaved door with a lattice porch and concave painted metal canopy is located in bay three.

The left gable is rendered, while the right gable is constructed of coursed flint with some brick, brick dressings, and a renewed doorway. There are two fixed windows with moulded brick surrounds and leaded panes to the first floor, and two attic windows with square brick hood moulds – the left one featuring pintle hinges. A later wing, to the right, is two bays wide, with two storeys and an attic, and is constructed of coursed flint with brick dressings. This wing features a dentil cornice, a ground-floor sash window, a 20th-century casement with glazing bars to the first floor, and a raking roof dormer.

The interior contains a three-tiered roof with staggered purlins and collars, and lacking a ridge piece. A newel stair leads to the attic behind the north-east stack. The south-west gable stack is enclosed, and a repositioned fire surround in the south-west cell features two slender, fluted, downward-tapering columns with Ionic capitals. Reeded window surrounds feature on the ground-floor sashes of the wing. A late 18th-century curved stair is located within the two-storeyed projection to bay two of the street facade, exhibiting an open string, square balusters, a mahogany rail with a thumb groove, and a square reeded newel to the lowest step.