Manor House

Manor house, dating from the 15th and 16th centuries, with substantial remodelling in the late 18th century, and an additional storey added in 1913. The building is constructed of roughcast limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, some timber framing with brick infill, and has a plain-tile roof with brick stacks. It is arranged around an irregular courtyard plan.

The south front originally had five windows but now presents a three-storey facade with a central break and a blind right bay. The late 18th-century portion was originally stuccoed, and features ashlar quoins and plain architraves. A recessed doorway is located to the left of the central window, featuring a 6-panelled door with matching reveals, an Adam-style fanlight, and a wooden porch with a triangular broken pediment, flanking pilasters and fluted Doric columns. The added floor has three-light stone-mullioned windows and three gables, each with slit vents flanked by parapets. A wooden verandah with Doric columns has been added, incorporating triple French windows in the left bay, alongside an ornamental conservatory to the right bay. Four original 18th-century sash windows remain, one of which is full-length, as does the moulded stone cornice of the original parapet.

Inside, the entrance hall has a Classical fireplace and a modillion cornice with guttae. The drawing-room (circa 1800) contains an internal, square-headed stone-mullioned window with two trefoil-headed lights, recessed spandrels, and original ferramenta. This opens into a 15th-century room in the right bay, which retains mutilated, moulded wooden cornices and two similar windows within the gable wall. A bow-ended room in the left bay has a 16th-century four-centre arched fireplace with stone jambs and a timber bressumer. The 16th-century west range is timber-framed with jowled posts and a door with richly-moulded central planks.

The north wing contains a 15th-century, three-bay rubble range that originally comprised an open hall and a two-storey bay. This now includes a large 16th/17th-century stone stack and a wide fireplace with a cambered bressumer. The chamber above has a floor with heavy flat joists and remnants of a two-light stone-mullioned window. An adjoining floor over the passageway may be contemporary. The roof’s three bays include an intermediate hip truss over the chamber and an arch-braced collar-truss over the hall, with curved windbraces to a single row of clasped purlins. While partitions were later inserted, evidence of tie-beam mortices remain.