Sproughton Manor

Sproughton Manor is a house dating from 1863, designed by W E Nesfield for Col Henry Phillipps. It is constructed of grey brick with grey and yellow stone dressings, and has tile and slate roofs. The asymmetrical facade features three bays. It is two and two-and-a-half storeys high.

The left-hand bay has two storeys partly beneath a half-hipped gable and incorporates a first-floor brick band. A stepped diagonal buttress is present on the left-hand return. A mansard porch, constructed with fish-scale slate on timber brackets and supported by yellow stone corbels, features a stone doorway with chamfered jambs and cambered corbels with a round carved motif. The doorway is flanked by a two-leaved door with eight sunk panels. Ground floor and first-floor timber casements, each of one or two lights, are set beneath semicircular brick arches. The tympana of the left-hand windows are in chequer-work, grey brick, the tympanum above the right-hand window is in herringbone brickwork, and all are highlighted with red mortar. An attic window of three lights is set beneath a flat head. A brick stack has raised moulded brick panels. Iron finials are present on the gables, alongside crested ridge tiles, and a crest of HP is set into the wall to the left of the door. A rainwater head is dated 1863.

The central bay is gabled and two storeys high, containing a full-height hall. A bow window with cross casements and a parapet of pierced brickwork forming angular lozenges is on the ground floor. One arched, cross-window occupies the first floor. A gable ball finial is present.

The right-hand bay has three six-light cross casements to the ground floor, also beneath similar arched heads with tympana in herringbone brickwork. Two similar windows are on the first floor. A rear range stack has brick panels and a moulded cap.

The garden front is symmetrical, with three bays, the central bay set back, and the forward bays beneath mansard roofs. It is three storeys high. The outer bays have ground-floor timber casements with glazed margins and overlights, with tympana in herringbone brickwork. Two similarly treated first-floor casements are present, as well as two three-light second-floor casements with flat arches. The central bay contains a two-leaved French window beneath an overlight with vertical glazing bars, and is backed by a 20th-century glazed verandah. Two first-floor casements are set beneath one arch, the tympanum of which is similar to that of the second-floor window with flat arches. The rear wall displays the arms of Henry Phillipps and Lucy Birch Phillipps.