Manor House

The Manor House is a large brick house with late 16th-century origins, significantly altered and enlarged in the late 19th century. It is located on Oulton Street, Lowestoft. The original west front, of two storeys and an attic in four bays, is rendered and colourwashed, with a scored surface. A late 18th-century panelled door, with HL hinges and a four-vaned fanlight protected by a late 19th-century glazed porch, is positioned in the second bay from the left. The windows are sashes with margin glazing and exposed boxes; one window is located to the left and two to the right of the door on the ground floor, with four windows on the first floor. The roof is gabled and covered with pantiles, some black-glazed and others red. An internal 19th-century gable-end stack is present on the south side, along with three late 20th-century roof lights. The south gable is colourwashed to reveal the English bond brickwork, with two blocked 18th-century first-floor windows and two small attic lights. Replacement bargeboards were installed in 1989. The remainder of the house comprises late 19th-century two-storey and attic additions to the east and north, arranged as a pair of gabled wings at right angles to each other, with gault brick on the ground floor and tile hanging on the first floor. These have sash windows with 6/1 glazing bars to the upper sash only, along with gabled roofs and a ridge stack on the north range.

The southwest ground-floor room contains a sunk-quadrant moulded bridging beam and wall plate. The ceiling, dating from around 1590-1600, is divided into squares by multiple roll-moulded ribs, featuring jelly-mould bosses at the intersections. Each square contains a modest boss with ballflower decoration. Original 18th-century panelling remains between the two west windows, along with panelled window shutters. A late 18th-century chimneypiece, featuring Ionic columns and a fluted frieze, now occupies the space where earlier panelling and a 1590-1600 chimneypiece (which were sold to America) were previously located. The staircase has stick balusters and a ramped handrail. A leaded four-light mullioned window, with a central King mullion, is situated on the half-landing and now overlooks the 19th-century east additions. The first-floor southwest and southeast rooms are accessed via early 18th-century two-panel doors, the southwest door having a sunk-quadrant door frame dating from around 1600. The southwest room has an elaborate plaster ceiling from the 1590s, with roll-moulded ribs forming a central intersecting rectangle with canted ends; the intersections contain jelly-mould bosses with water-leaf riders, and repeating geometrical rib patterns with floral filigree work. This ceiling, along with the one in the room below, is believed to be the work of the same craftsmen who created the ceiling at No.4 South Key, Great Yarmouth.