Gallants Manor And Mounting Block

Gallants Manor is a manor house, now a farmhouse, dating back to the 14th century. It has undergone alterations in the 16th, 17th, and late 18th or early 19th centuries. The main range is constructed of roughly coursed galleted ragstone, while the ground floor of the left cross-wing also uses this material. The first floor of the left cross-wing is tile-hung. The 16th-century wing has a stone rubble ground floor and exposed timber framing with rendered infilling on the first floor. An addition to the right end of the main range is built of roughly coursed stone blocks. The building has plain tile roofs.

The original 14th-century main range comprised a single large room, likely a hall, with a cross-wing of similar date projecting slightly to the rear. A 16th-century addition consists of three timber-framed bays, running forwards from the front left-hand (north-west) corner of the cross-wing. A late 18th or early 19th-century addition or rebuilt bay extends from the right end of the hall. The main range includes a cellar towards the right end.

The 16th-century wing has a slight jetty to its long, south side, with broadly-spaced timber studding and tension braces, and a hipped roof with gablets. The roof of the main range, incorporating the cross-wing, is three-quarters hipped to the right and hipped to the left, with hips returning. There are slender projecting stacks on the left (north) side of the 16th-century wing and two on the left side of the cross-wing. A rear stack is located towards the left end of the main range and to the right of centre. The rear of the building has irregular window placement with three 2-light casements. The ground floor windows have segmental heads. The 16th-century wing has one 2-light casement to the south and a 4-light casement to the west gable end. A half-glazed door is situated at the left end of the main (hall) range, marking the site of the former cross-passage, and features fluted pilasters and a flat bracketed hood. A blocked 4-centred arched stone doorway is found towards the west end of the south side of the 16th-century wing, along with a blocked rectangular south window. A blocked doorway with a pegged head is present at the west end of the first floor of the north side of the 16th-century wing. A red brick lean-to extends from the north side of the cross-wing.

Inside, the hall has three juxtaposed, plain-chamfered, pointed-arched stone doorways towards the centre of the north wall. The first floor of the cross-wing features exposed timber framing of heavy scantling, incorporating a dragon tie to the south-east corner, braced cambered tie-beams, and two octagonal crown posts. An unmoulded cornice bressumer sits atop the wall-plate. The first floor of the 16th-century wing also has exposed framing. Two heavy-scantling 17th-century axial beams with jewelled chamfer stops are visible on the ground floor of the hall. The roof of the main range was not inspected.

Attached to the north-west corner of the 16th-century wing is a mounting block consisting of three stone steps.