The Manor House

The Manor House is a manor house, now used as a dwelling and office, dating back to approximately 1325. It was originally built for Sir John Golafre. In the late 16th century, the hall on the right was heightened and rebuilt for the White family, with further extensions added in the 17th century. A restoration took place in 1868 by J.H. Parker. The house is constructed of limestone rubble with ashlar dressings. Surviving elements of an early 14th-century Decorated-style house include a porch and adjoining solar wing over a service area. The timber-framed solar wing rests on a limestone plinth and features heavy timber framing with heavy cusped angle braces. The first floor of the porch is roughcast over timber framing. Gabled stone slate roofs cover the structure, and stone and brick stacks are present. The 2-story porch has a 2-light Decorated window with heraldic shields in the spandrels. Pointed, molded doorways lead to an inner doorway framing ancient studded doors with a grill and iron fittings. The early 14th-century, two-story and attic gabled front of the solar wing has 17th-century ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed windows, alongside an early 14th-century two-light trefoil-headed attic window. A late 16th-century range is located behind and to the right of the porch, featuring two stories and an attic with a symmetrical three-window range. Restored 18th-century casements are set within three-light stone mullioned, cavetto-moulded windows set under gables, with a stack on the fourth gable to the left. Similar stone-mullioned windows are located at the rear. A two-story range to the left of the 14th-century wing includes a 17th-century three-light wood-mullioned window, re-set after 1868. A late 17th-century three-unit lobby-entry house, along with a two-unit dwelling and a 19th-century stable, extend forward from the left. Internally, the screens feature three early 14th-century pointed moulded service doorways. The 14th-century wing has heavy transverse beams and a 17th-century door with a lock in the service area. The first-floor solar includes molded oak doorways to the left and to the porch, a 16th-century molded stone fireplace in the left wall, and a three-bay roof of massive scantling, partially restored by Parker. This roof has molded wall plates and cusp-chamfering to cusped braces tenoned into cambered tie beams of collar trusses with side struts, wind braces, and butt purlins. The late 16th-century range features chamfered and stopped beams, timber-framed partitions to the first floor and attic, restored stone molded fireplaces, two blackened round-headed doorways, and a four-bay collar-truss roof with clasped purlins and windbraces. An old range to the left of the 14th-century wing has a 17th-century door and chamfered beams. A first-floor room features early 18th-century panelling, a 16th-century stone-moulded fireplace, and cusp-chamfering to the doorway, posts, braces, and tie beams of the three-bay roof. The interiors of the 17th-century ranges to the left were not inspected.