The Manor House

The Manor House is probably of mid-15th century origin, with an 18th-century addition to the left and a 20th-century front. It was originally a hall house with a floored hall. The main range is constructed of red brick with ashlar stone dressings and has an old plain-tile roof, featuring massive stone lateral stacks to the rear with brick flues and a brick ridge stack to the right of centre. The front has a two-storey, six-window arrangement. There are six-panel doors to the left and right of centre, each with stone surrounds and flat stone hoods on stone brackets. Angled two-story bays are set to the left and right, containing four-pane horned sash windows; the left bay has French windows on the ground floor. Four-pane horned sash windows are present on the ground and first floors of the centre. A flat stone band separates the ground and first floors, and a stone cornice sits below a plain brick parapet to the eaves. The rear of the building was re-faced in brick in the 20th century. The 18th-century addition to the left is of red brick in Flemish bond and grey brick with red brick dressings, with an old plain-tile roof and a brick end stack to the left. It is a two-storey, three-window range. A double-leaf six-panel door is located to the right, with a wood fluted Corinthian pilaster surround on a stone base, supporting a segmental open pediment with a bracket to the tympanum. The ground floor has four-pane horned sash windows with cambered rubbed-brick heads, and the first floor mirrors this design. Interior features include an early 18th-century dog-leg staircase with a baluster balustrade and fielded panelling to the dado on the right side of the addition. A 20th-century staircase is located to the right of the centre of the main range. The roof construction incorporates queen posts and exhibits no signs of smoke-blackening. A 15th-century stone fireplace surround with a four-centred arch and quatrefoil panels is located on the ground floor to the left of centre. There are early 18th-century stone fireplaces with panelled reveals in some ground and first-floor rooms. The 18th-century addition has early 18th-century fielded panelling on the ground and first floors. A partition wall, constructed of timber framing, separates the sitting room on the left from the hallway to the left of centre and contains a 15th-century wood four-centred arched doorway, likely part of a former screens passage.