Instead Manor House

Instead Manor House is a manor farmhouse with a 16th-century range to the east and two adjoining early 17th-century wings to the west, creating an L-shaped plan. The building is timber framed and plastered, with roofs primarily covered in black pantiles, some glazed, and plain tiles on the front of the southernmost 17th-century wing facing the road. It has two storeys and attics.

On the southern side, there is a range of five flush-frame sash windows with glazing bars. The earlier range to the east features sash windows on the ground floor and two notable projecting 17th-century ovolo-moulded windows with five lights on the upper floor—one of these has a transom—along with an early 18th-century cross window with old square-leaded panes. The two 17th-century wings have matching three-light gable windows with dentilled heads, and one of the gables retains a drop finial.

A prominent stack rises from the 17th-century wing, featuring four octagonal shafts with star caps, while the two front shafts are embellished with moulded brick. The earlier range has an external stack against the west wall.

Inside, the house once had some fine panelled rooms but has been somewhat modernised. The northern of the two 17th-century wings contains an early 17th-century closed-string staircase with turned balusters and square or oblong newel posts with finials, although this stair does not seem to be original to the house. On what was the outside wall of this wing, now within a 19th-century addition, there is a section of incised pargetting with a running foliage design. One bedroom features a 17th-century overmantel with fluted columns and two arched panels, which hold later oil paintings of flowers in vases. Some 17th-century panelling has been incorporated into the 19th-century entrance lobby. Additionally, there are several early 17th-century nine-panel studded doors. Above the lintel of a ground floor fireplace, there is a carved beam with a Tudor rose and the date 1603.