Morton Manor Including Detached Garden Wall To South East

Morton Manor is a house, formerly a manor house, with a detached garden wall to the south-east. The original part of the house probably dates from around 1540, built on earlier foundations. It was significantly restored around 1890, with a T-shaped wing added around 1680 and two early 19th-century projections at the rear, one of which is a gun room.

The original building is constructed of stone rubble, brick, and pebbledashed render on the ground floor with tile hanging on the first floor. It has a tiled roof with a cruciform brick chimneystack and a gable end featuring applied timber framing. The house is two storeys and has attics in the gable end, with irregular window placement. A blocked 16th-century mullioned window is exposed on the north elevation. The south-east elevation features two early 20th-century casement windows, one four-light and one three-light. The ground floor has a mid-19th-century sash window with four panes and a late-19th-century stone mullioned window with leaded lights. The gable has two 19th-century mullioned windows.

To the east is a wing dating to around 1680, refaced in the 19th century. The ground floor is of yellow brick, the first floor is tile-hung, and it has a tiled roof with a brick chimneystack. The side facing the road has applied timber framing to its gable and irregular 19th-century windows, including a pedimented dormer. A rear extension dating to the early 19th century has a painted brick ground floor and a tile-hung first floor with a tiled roof. One side has a triple casement window, while the other side features a triple casement on the ground floor and a circa 1840 doorcase with a dentilled cornice, brackets, and a four-panelled door on a semi-circular stone step. An early 20th-century Neo-Georgian style round-headed doorcase with fanlight and a six-panelled door (the top four panels glazed) is set at an angle.

A section of garden wall, approximately 7 feet high and built in the early 19th century in Flemish bond, leads from the house to the front gate.

The interiors are notable, displaying two distinct periods. The original wing was refurbished around 1890 in the style of Philip Webb. The lounge has a marble fireplace with 18th-century Delft tiles and dado panelling, which originally included a settle. The hall features a late 19th-century stone fireplace with the inscription "EAST WEST HOME'S BEST" and William de Morgan green glazed tiles depicting floral or ship motifs. There is late 19th-century panelling in an early 17th-century plank and muntin style, incorporating a built-in sideboard with decorative iron hinges. The 1680 wing has a lounge refurbished around 1780, featuring a marquetry floor, a cornice with ovolo and grape motifs, a marble fireplace with a panel depicting two reclining nymphs against an urn and pilasters, recessed round-headed cupboards with reeded surrounds and paterae, a late 18th-century six-panelled door, reeded dado panelling with glyphs and paterae, a late 18th-century staircase with slender balusters and a mahogany handrail with tall balustered supports, a Strawberry Hill Gothic frieze, circa 1890 dado panelling, a six-panelled door under a reeded architrave with paterae, and a stone flag floor.

The site was first occupied by a house built by Thomas de Aula in 1249.