The Manor House

The Manor House is a manor house with origins dating back to the 12th century, with significant alterations in the 16th and 17th centuries. The building features stone coursed rubble on the ground floor and roughcast, likely on timber framing, on the first floor. It has a cross-gable roof covered with old plain tiles and various brick stacks, some of which were rebuilt in the 20th century. The house is arranged in a U-plan and has two storeys plus an attic, with a five-window range where the right two bays project.

The central entrance consists of a plank door with an overlight above. The windows are irregularly placed, mostly consisting of 20th-century casements fitted into original openings, with those on the first floor featuring floating cornices. The house has five cross-gables, each adorned with two-light casements and richly carved bargeboards.

On the left side, the ground floor is made of stone coursed rubble, while the first floor has close-studded timber framing with rendered infill. This side also has a two-storey, five-window range with irregular casement fenestration, including an Ipswich window at the centre of the first floor.

The right side features a five-bay loggia on the ground floor, supported by Doric columns that hold up flattened arches, each with central pineapple pendant bosses. The first floor has Ipswich windows, with Doric pilasters in between and Corinthian pilasters at the ends.

At the rear, there is a three-bay central range with cross-wings. The left cross-wing has flattened arches with central pineapple pendant bosses, and the first floor features Ipswich windows with Corinthian pilasters supporting a cornice with a pulvinated frieze.

Inside, there is a late 17th-century dog-leg staircase with a baluster balustrade that connects the ground floor to the attic of the main range. The north range has an arch-braced collar truss roof, and the main range features raised base-cruck trusses with cusping below the collar. Additionally, there is a 16th-century four-centre arched stone fireplace in the dining room.