The Old Manor House

The Old Manor House is a house dating to the late 16th century, with an extension added in the early 17th century, and a restoration carried out circa 1930. The left wing is timber-framed, with early 19th-century brick infill; the rear wall has exposed timber studs and brick infill, sitting on a limestone rubble plinth. The front right wing, from the late 16th century, has been extensively restored circa 1930, with a two-bay rear wall featuring arch-braced posts, intermediate studs, roughcast infill, and a limestone rubble plinth. The roof is gabled and covered in stone slate, with a stone ashlar ridge stack featuring a moulded drip course. The plan is L-shaped, combining the front right wing with the left wing extension. The house is two stories high with a two-window front. The windows are mullioned and date from around 1930. A timber-framed porch with a 20th century door is attached to the right wing. A canted oriel window to the rear is supported by a carved bracket and has ovolo-moulded wood mullions.

Inside, the front room of the right wing contains a late 16th century stone fireplace with a debased relief carving. A rear right room has stop-chamfered beams and a late 16th century moulded stone fireplace with carved consoles to the overmantel, featuring a frieze of Tudor roses. The room above has a moulded stone fireplace and a two-bay queen-post roof with clasped purlins and windbraces. The early 17th-century extension to the left features a ground-floor room with a stop-chamfered beam and chamfered stone arched fireplace with sunk spandrels, along with a spice cupboard. The room above has a finely moulded stone fireplace flanked by pilasters; the overmantel incorporates strapwork carving and griffin heads framing the arms of St. John’s College. The fine plasterwork ceiling features quartered beams with moulded cornices and pomegranate trails, with four panels displaying strapwork patterns and grape-like pendants.