The Manor House And Garden Walls To Rear

The Manor House, now a hotel, shows development across the late 15th century, the late 16th and early 17th centuries, and the late 17th century, with substantial extensions around 1908 by E.P. Warren. The construction is primarily limestone rubble with some ashlar dressings, topped with an old plain-tile roof and brick stacks. The building originally followed an H-plan.

The front facade features a low, three-window central range, roughcast at first floor, with a doorway to the left of centre. The doorway has a double-boarded door with a moulded frame and an early 18th-century flat hood supported by wooden consoles. Three roof dormers are visible, along with a 20th-century stack. A 17th-century stack with four diagonal shafts is located to the right. A projecting cross wing from the late 17th century is on the left, distinguished by ashlar storey bands and flush banding. It retains a two-light stone mullioned window in the gable, though it has been significantly altered. A corresponding wing from the early 17th century on the right has been rebuilt as a central main entrance, but retains two two-light mullioned windows in its return wall; the lower window has a label, the upper a straight hood, and both feature ovolo chamfers.

The rear elevation presents four gables, the central pair forming a 17th-century infill of the original H-plan. It includes several straight-chamfered mullioned windows, with at least one original cross window. The rear of the left wing preserves a pattern of cross windows. The right wing displays four-light mullioned windows with ovolo chamfers, alongside similar windows in a bay flush with the gable. A rear entrance, opposite the front door, is accessed through an old two-panel door. The rest of the rear facade maintains a mullioned style, with dressings of orange Cotswold stone and irregular parapeted gables.

Inside, there are several bolection-moulded fireplaces, one with a Tudor arch and recessed spandrels. A panelled room features a pulvinated frieze, and a late 17th-century dogleg staircase has heavy turned balusters and ball finials on the newels. Within the central range, remnants of a through passage remain, with a Tudor-arched wooden door frame at the rear and an arched opening to the left. A floor, featuring heavy chamfered and stopped joists, was inserted into an open hall constructed between 1474 and 1477. Some heavily jowled posts at first floor and tie beams, along with elements of the roof, represent surviving features of this original hall, which was built for William Radmyld.

A partly 17th-century rear garden wall, constructed of coursed limestone rubble, runs from the left of the house and across the rear of the first garden, surrounding a square pond at a lower level. Stone steps lead down to the pond through a Tudor-arched doorway with recessed spandrels. Three rectangular openings with baluster mullions provide a view outwards, alongside a plainer four-centre arched doorway. An angle of the wall incorporates a stone column with a square head bearing a sundial, likely dating to the 17th century.