Manor Farm House

Manor Farm House is a manor house dating back to the early 12th century, with substantial alterations in the 16th and 17th centuries and a remodelling in the late 18th century. It is constructed of limestone rubble with wooden lintels, featuring Stonesfield-slate and Welsh-slate roofing and brick stacks. The building is arranged in an "L" shape with an attached range.

The main front, with five windows, presents a regular facade with a central doorway. It has renewed sash windows, with 12 panes on the ground floor and 9 above, and a stone band above the first-floor windows. Three gabled roof dormers with brick gable stacks punctuate the stone-slate roof. A lean-to addition is situated against the right gable wall.

A short rear wing, likely from the 16th or 17th century, originally extended beyond the present front. An 18th-century single-storey kitchen bay projects to the rear of this wing. A large range, linked to the rear of the right end of the main range and parallel to it, dates back to the 12th century and has a 17th-century roof. This range retains two original small window openings (with later lintels) at its right end, and an original round-headed entrance, now converted to a window and contained within the linking range. A remnant window in the left gable is probably medieval. A 20th-century gable and steps are located at the rear. A timber-framed privy with brick infill, likely from the early 18th century, stands to the rear of this range.

The interior of the rear wing and left end of the house reveal intersecting chamfered beams, an early partition with lattice panels, and panelled shutters to the front windows. A pine-panelled room exists within the lean-to addition. The linking range includes some medieval stonework and an early beam, possibly part of a porch to the 12th-century range. The lower storey of the 12th-century range is a barrel-vaulted undercroft, originally serving a first-floor hall or chamber. Surviving features include the round-arched splays to the end windows and the groined vault above the original doorway; however, the undercroft is now subdivided by a later crosswall, potentially medieval, with inserted doorways in the right gable wall and left gable wall, plus an inserted window to the rear. The upper floor is contained within a 6-bay butt-purlin roof with through tenons and two collars (the lower collars are now removed).

Historically, the building functioned as a detached outbuilding until the late 20th century, when it was linked to the house and converted. It is now recognized as one of the earliest known examples of a first-floor hall or chamber, and evidence of a contemporary encircling moat was subsequently discovered.