Gatehouse, 1 and 2 Manor House Estate

The gatehouse and associated cottages, built in a Tudor Revival style around 1929-30 and refurbished in 2013, form part of the Manor House Estate. The buildings are constructed of handmade red brick with brick herringbone nogging, tile hanging, timber framing, and plain tile roofs.

The design is symmetrical, comprising a central covered entrance arch flanked by two-storey cottages, numbered 1 and 2. Each cottage has a lobby opening from the covered archway into a single ground-floor room, with two rooms on the first floor and service rooms beyond.

The central feature is an exposed timber frame that projects slightly at first-floor level, framed by prominent paired brick ridge stacks set diagonally. The ground floor is predominantly brick, while the first floor is tile hung. The archway’s walls feature exposed timber framing with rendered panels beneath tile hanging. Plank front doors have moulded muntins, ornate strap hinges, latches, and letterboxes. Each side of the entrance arch has an ornate boot scraper, and to the north cottage (No. 1) there is a lamp attachment.

Roadside windows include three-light cross casements with square leaded lights set within rendered timber-framed panels on the ground floor. At first floor, a five-light window, with a round-arched central light, is set above brick-nogged and tile panels, incorporating a stone coat of arms. An inscribed beam above the entrance reads, "Welcome ever smiles and farewell goes out sighing" (from Troilus and Cressida). Smaller ground floor windows with diamond leaded lights are located on each side, along with a two-light and a three-light casement window at first floor, both with square leaded lights. The rear elevation is similar but features a smaller, three-light central first floor window; some ground floor openings have been renewed.

Internally, each cottage originally had a baffle screen with a built-in bench forming the side of an inglenook fireplace, flanked by a small fixed window. These screens have been removed, and the chamfered ceiling beams and plain bressumers above the former inglenooks have been reset across the ceiling height. Both cottages have a canted chimney breast with a brick basket arch and a simple timber mantel shelf. Cottage No. 1 (north) originally had an internal plank and moulded muntin door with ornate strap hinges and latch, which is believed to have been removed in 2012/13. Cottage No. 2 (south) retains a door of three plain panels.