Manor Farmhouse and attached wall

Manor Farmhouse is a late 16th-century farmhouse with an early 17th-century extension dated 1617, and further extensions from the late 17th century, built for the Ashcombe family and later altered for the Pike family. It is constructed of uncoursed limestone rubble, with a gabled stone slate roof featuring a ball finial on the left side and rendered stone ridge and left end stacks. The building has a three-unit lobby-entry plan.

The main block is two storeys high with a four-window front. There are flat stone arches over a blocked door in the second bay from the left, and a mid-19th-century horned sash window in a blocked doorway opposite the stack. A timber lintel covers a blocked window above. Further flat stone arches cover early 19th-century six-pane sash windows and two blocked windows to the right. A wing with a 1617 datestone projects from the left bay of the front. This two-storey, three-window range, built of similar materials, has a timber lintel over a 20th-century door adjoining the main range, and an early 17th-century five-light wood-mullioned window with ovolo moulding to the left, alongside carved ovolo-moulded decorative timber lintels over two 20th-century windows.

On the left side, a four-light wood-mullioned window with a new sill is visible. The gabled side wall of the main range features timber lintels over wood-mullioned ovolo-moulded windows with diamond leaded lights, and a blocked window flanking the central stack, which corbels out over a similar four-light window. An early 17th-century stair turret has a ball finial and a two-light wood-mullioned window with leaded casements.

A late 17th-century two-storey rear wing of similar materials has a gable end stack finished in brick. A rendered right side wall contains a 20th-century stone porch and early 19th-century sash windows.

The interior features cased beams, and chamfered and stopped beams, including a stopped bressumer over the open fireplace with inglenook seats. A newel staircase rises to the attic and includes an octagonal newel post. There’s a timber-framed partition wall to a gallery running along the rear wall of the first floor, with access to the stairs. The roof is a timber-frame construction with staggered butt purlins.

Outside, a 17th-century L-shaped wall of limestone rubble with dressed stone buttresses is located to the rear right.

The Pike family have resided on the property since the late 17th century. Like The Priory at Marcham, this building represents an early example of a lobby-entry plan.