The Manor House

The Manor House is a house built for Richard Lyncolne in 1616, following the destruction of the original building in the 1615 Wymondham fire. It was altered in 1864. The house is timber-framed, featuring a plaintile roof at the front and a machine tile roof at the rear. It has two storeys and is partly set on a plinth. The central entrance has a stud and plank door with hardware from 1616. The exterior displays close studded exposed timbering with decorative plaster added in 1864. There are canted bays on either side of the door, also from the 1860s. The first floor is jettied, with the bressumer obscured by attached timber that bears a Latin inscription. The first floor has two 3-light casements from the 1860s. The roof is gabled, with a rebuilt internal gable-end stack on the east side. The roughcast rear features a moulded wall plate and 20th-century windows.

Inside, the ground floor west room has a chamfered bridging beam that ends in jewelled tongue stops. The east room contains a sunk-quadrant moulded bridging beam with barred tongue stops. A wall plate runs north-south and is inscribed: "Richard Lyncolne A.D. 1616. Live well and die never, die well and live ever." The frame includes jowled principal studs. The roof has two tiers of chamfered and tongue-stopped butt purlins, cambered collars, and likely curved windbracing beneath the plaster.