Manor Farmhouse

Manor Farmhouse is a farmhouse incorporating part of an earlier mansion, dating from the 16th century, with later work from the late 17th and early 18th centuries. It is constructed of limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, and has a plain-tile roof with brick stacks. The building has an L-shaped plan. The main two-storey, three-window front, dating from the 18th century, features leaded casement windows of 3, 3, and 2 lights. The upper-floor windows have stone flat arches, while the ground-floor windows have wooden lintels. The windows in the right bay are set lower, and this bay also contains a doorway with a plank door. The right end wall is tile-hung. The roof is half-hipped to the right and has a stack to the left of centre. A late 17th century range, with a hipped roof, projects to the left of the main range and has pairs of heavy cross windows in its end wall (original at first floor), with slightly later leaded mullioned-and-transomed casements facing to the right; the main entrance is near the angle. The left wall features a projecting stone chimney with an ashlar stack and a brick shaft, beyond which there is a small hipped-roofed projection with cross windows. A further projecting chimney, with two diagonal brick shafts, is likely from the 16th century and rises against a crow-stepped gable with a rendered brick parapet containing a small, 2-light wood-mullioned window. The rear of the house has additional casement windows.

Inside, the 16th century section contains a Tudor-arched stone fireplace with recessed spandrels and a brick relieving arch, in a room with heavy joists. A first-floor room has reused 17th century panelling. The late 17th century wing has a moulded rectangular stone fireplace, and the roof shows two rows of butt purlins and cambered collars. The earlier sections are part of a mansion built by the Bradshawe family; the 18th century wing may represent rebuilding work undertaken when the house was acquired by the Duke of Marlborough in the early 18th century.