32, Manor Road

32 Manor Road is a house dating from the early 17th century, possibly a remodelling of an earlier structure. It is built from white-washed limestone rubble with dressed quoins and masonry at the northeast end, topped with an asbestos tile roof featuring half-hipped ends and a stone rubble axial stack.

The house has a three-room plan with a lobby entrance in front of the axial stack. Back-to-back fireplaces heat a small kitchen on the southwest side and a central hall. The partition between the hall and a large unheated inner room has been removed, and a small closet, which serves as an outside lavatory, has been added at the back. There is also a small 20th-century wing at the rear behind the hall.

The exterior is one storey with an attic and features an asymmetrical three-window northwest front. It has 20th-century two and three-light casements with timber lintels, along with two gabled dormers. The doorway is located to the right of centre and has a chamfered timber lintel with a 20th-century door. The end of the cross-beam is exposed on the left side, which has a splayed corner made of dressed stone. There is a small window in the northeast end wall, and at the rear, there are two gabled dormers, a blocked doorway on the left, and a 20th-century single-storey wing to the left of centre.

Inside, the kitchen features a chamfered axial beam with run-out stops and a fireplace with a cambered unchamfered roughly hewn bressumer and a large oven to the side with a brick arch and a 19th-century iron door. The hall has chamfered axial beams with run-out stops, unchamfered joists, and a rebuilt fireplace. The inner room on the left has a roughly chamfered cross-beam and exposed unchamfered joists. There are two moulded plank doors in the attic, but most of the joinery is later. At the high end of the house, there is a raised cruck truss with square-section blades halved at the apex, a mortice and tenoned straight collar, and trenched purlins. The straight wind-braces tie the beam truss between the hall and inner room chambers, which have a stud partition. The common-rafter couples are intact, though the battens have been renewed, and the wall-plates are exposed.