Manor Farmhouse

Manor Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed farmhouse located on Silver Lane in West Challow. The building features a graffito dated 1725 on the brick to the right of the door, indicating a probable 17th-century core to the right. It is constructed in Flemish bond flared brick with red brick quoins and dressings, topped with an old tile roof and flared red brick stacks. The farmhouse is designed in an L-plan and consists of two storeys and an attic with a five-window range.

The central bay is slightly projected and has its own parapet. The fine doorway is adorned with fluted pilasters and carved brackets supporting a flat hood with a moulded cornice and a panelled soffit. It features a six-panelled door with an overlight. The windows are topped with gauged-brick cambered arches and triple keystones, and the sashes have half-H aprons. There are red brick storey bands, and the parapet is panelled in red brick, ramping up to the centre bay. The gabled roof includes dormers and end stacks.

To the rear right, there is a two-storey, one-bay block made of Flemish bond brick, featuring a gabled old tile roof with dentilled eaves, a two-storey canted bay window, and a 17th-century timber-framed rear gable wall. There is also a similar early to mid-18th-century two-storey, three-window range block at the rear. The left side wall of the front range has an early 18th-century brick wall concealing a narrow two-storey early 18th-century rear block that runs parallel to the front range, made of similar materials and featuring a gable end stack and two-light leaded casements.

Inside, the farmhouse boasts panelled doors and shutters. The two-unit front range includes a panelled hall with quarter-turn stairs, featuring turned balusters on an open string, carved brackets, a wreathed handrail, and a panelled dado with fluted pilasters. The room to the right has early 17th-century panelling, with early 18th-century alcoves flanking a fireplace that displays the initials "RP 1604" in a decorative frieze overmantle. The first-floor room to the left has early 18th-century panelling with a mid-19th-century fireplace and grate, while the room to the right features ribbed doors flanking a mid-19th-century fireplace and grate. There is a bolection-moulded door in the rear right wing, C19 back stairs leading to a cheese room in the rear left wing, and 18th-century winder stairs from the first floor to the attic, which has an early 18th-century plank door and a bolection-moulded door. The roof is a four-bay collar-truss design, with a common-rafter roof in the rear left.