Manor House

This is a former hall-house, later used as a social club. The building’s origins lie in the medieval period with a west crosswing, followed by an east crosswing built in 1591. The original open hall was rebuilt around 1800, and the building was then faced with brickwork and largely fitted with 19th-century sash windows. Late 20th-century additions to the west and north are not of particular architectural interest. The building is timber-framed and brick-faced, with roughcast on the rear and a roof covered in late 20th-century pantiles. It is two storeys high with a five-window front and irregular window placement, mainly featuring 19th-century sash windows, although one early 19th-century sash is blocked on the rear elevation.

The west crosswing’s ground floor features an axial beam with a one-and-a-half-inch chamfer. The first floor has a partition with medieval downbraces, and a 1591 staircase with moulded knobs. One front room retains an arched-brace frame, an 18th-century door, original floorboards and a dragon beam, which demonstrates that the front was originally jettied. A rear room has an 18th-century three-plank door. The probable original roof consists of coupled rafters and collars. The ground floor has been significantly altered in the late 20th century, while the first floor retains an early 19th-century six-panelled door.

The 1591 east crosswing has gunstock jowled posts on the ground floor, an axial beam to the rear room, and an open fireplace with a wooden bressumer bearing marks from a spit machine. One front room has a stone fireplace with a four-centred arch and blank shields in the spandrels, and high stops. Floor joists include a dragon beam, confirming the crosswing’s original jettied construction. The first floor of the east crosswing has a stone four-centred arched fireplace dated 1591, which was restored in the 19th century. It includes a front room with a midrail frame and original floorboards, and a rear room with four gunstock jowled posts, an axial beam with a chamfer and lambs tongue stops, and another open fireplace. A late 18th-century winder staircase, located near the chimneystack, leads to a roof with clasped side purlins and windbraces.