Manor House

The Manor House is a building dating from the late 17th century and early 19th century, located in Cuddesdon. It is constructed of limestone ashlar and rubble with ashlar dressings, featuring an old plain-tile roof and brick stacks. The house has an L-shaped plan and has been extended, standing two storeys plus an attic. The five-window front, which is said to have been added in 1805, is made of ashlar and includes a central six-panel door and sash windows across three floors, with the ground floor windows being full height and wider. There is a first-floor plat-band and a plain parapet above. A projecting stack is located on the left gable wall. The right gable wall, the rear, and the rear wing to the left have gable parapets with bracket kneelers and pairs of cross windows or their remains, with roll-mouldings surrounding the heads and sides. A further wing made of rubble with timber lintels projects to the left from the rear wing, and at the angle with the gable of the main range is an 18th-century semi-octagonal stair tower featuring moulded corbelling at the eaves. There are single-storey service wings that are accessed further to the left and rear.

Inside, two ground floor rooms are fitted with fielded panelling, and there are two staircases with 18th-century turned balusters. A late 17th-century staircase with winders and turned balusters rises from the first floor to the attics. The roof of the main block conceals a surviving double-gabled roof with a central flat, which has two rows of butt purlins. The house is believed to have been rebuilt after the Civil War by a former Solicitor General to Charles II.