Pittleworth Manor House

Pittleworth Manor House is a Grade II* listed manor house located in Bossington. It dates back to the 16th century, with 17th-century crosswings and a side stack. The building was encased in the 18th century when a range was added to the front between the two wings, and it has altered windows from the 19th century. The structure is timber-framed with a plaster infill core and features some brickwork, including chequerwork. The 17th-century stack is made of brick, and the roof is covered with old plain tiles.

The manor is two storeys high and consists of a four-bay 16th-century building with wide two-bay deep wings added to the end bays in the 17th century, likely constructed in brick. A side stack was added to the rear of the upper bay. In the late 18th century, a narrow range was added to the front between the wings, and the inner bay of the wings was reroofed to create two long ridges and small parallel roofs over the front bays of the wings. The early 19th-century wings and much of the exterior were refronted.

The front of the manor is symmetrical, featuring two storeys and an attic with seven narrow bays, and the two-bay wings project a bay at each end. There is a central four-panel door in a solid frame, which is sheltered by a 20th-century Doric porch, all finished in dark stain. Each side has altered 18th-century leaded cross-windows under Dutch arches, with three similar windows on the first floor under rubbed brick arches; the central one has been filled in with a late 20th-century blocked opening. The eaves are toothed, and there are two hipped two-light dormers on the roof.

The wings have blocked openings on their inner faces under Dutch arches, with cross-windows above. The right wing features two similar windows with one above in the centre, while the left wing has a large cast iron window under a Dutch arch, with a cross-window above. The wings are half-hipped inwards towards the centre, with a stack at the other end and a hipped dormer on the left wing.

Inside, the left bay of the main range contains 16th-century full-height wall paintings on the right and front-facing walls. The walls are timber-framed with stud and plaster infill, all painted in ochre, vegetable dyes, and oil paint. The paintings, dating from around 1540, were mostly painted over in 1580 and depict the Parable of Lazarus in couplets. These were discovered in 1922 when some Jacobean panelling was removed, and they survive on the other two walls, along with a carved chalk four-centred arch fireplace on the external side of the rear wall's stack.