The Manor House

The Manor House is a house dating back to the early and mid 16th century, built in two main phases with later additions to the rear. It is timber-framed and plastered, with a plaintiled roof at the front and pantiled at the rear. A rear lean-to has a slate roof. Brick stacks are located to the far right and to the rear left. The house was originally designed with a cross-passage plan, with a hall to the right and a parlour to the left. It is two storeys high and features a continuous jettied front supported by leaf-carved brackets. The front has a three-window arrangement, with two- and three-light casement windows, each light featuring a single slender horizontal glazing bar. The central cross-passage doorway has a panelled door with six sunk bolection-moulded panels, the central two being glazed.

The interior reveals a complex development, incorporating an early 16th century hall cell and, to the left of the cross-passage, a mid 16th century parlour that replaced medieval work. The hall has ogee-moulded ceiling beams and wall posts, alongside knee braces with high-quality foliage-carved spandrels. A good in situ plank and muntin screen, featuring a moulded and embattled head and an original wide four-centre arched entrance off the cross-passage, remains. The fireplace lintel shows defaced embattled decoration. An adjacent carved four-centre arched doorway led to an earlier parlour cross-wing which was sold off early on and is now mainly within No 66. A small section within No 64 retains a fully-moulded ceiling beam. Oak panelling from around 1600 is visible against the rear wall, along with a 18th century corner cupboard. The hall chamber has close studding and evidence of a former oriel window. The open truss is cambered, with braces forming a four-centred arch, supporting a square crown post with a moulded base and embattled cap, along with two-way bracing to the collar purlin. The parlour ceiling beam and wallposts have multiple roll mouldings with stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. The roof above is framed with exposed timbers and features a plain crown-post roof. The lean-to behind the parlour has a fireplace with a fine roll-moulded lintel, bearing a central shield carved with the initials RW, signifying Robert Wingfield, Lord of the Manor around 1538. This lintel has been reset, likely originating from the earlier parlour.