The Old Manor House

The Old Manor House is a house with a complex history, dating from the late 15th to early 16th century on the left-hand side, extended and remodelled around 1600, and with an 18th-century addition to the right. The original section is constructed of coursed limestone rubble, with rendered to the front and some 17th-century rendering on the rear gable. The roof is gabled, covered in stone slate, with a stone ridge stack. The building started as an open hall house and was later remodelled into a T-plan layout with a rear wing.

The left bay has one storey and an attic, featuring a 2-window range. A prominent feature is the 4-light stone-mullioned window with a hood mould. Above sits a gabled dormer with a partially restored 3-light wood-mullioned window. The gable end to the right is two storeys and attic, and incorporates hood moulds over similar 2- and 3-light windows. The rear of the house displays a gable with doveholes, along with various 3-light and 2-light wood-mullioned windows, some with ovolo moulding. The rear left side has 18th-century mullioned windows.

The rear wing is two storeys high, with a 2-window range, constructed from similar materials with stone and brick end stacks as well as doveholes. A 20th-century door has an old stone slate hood, while the windows include hollow-chamfered stone-mullioned windows, ovolo-moulded wood-mullioned windows, and a chamfered wood-mullioned window to the right. The 18th-century addition to the right is also of similar materials, with a rendered front, brick ridge and end stacks, and a 2-storey, 3-window range. It contains a 20th-century door with double doors to the right and 19th-century first-floor casements.

Inside the rear wing, the roof features stop-chamfered beams and butt-purlins. A front range of two units incorporates a room to the left with a chamfered beam, stop-chamfered joists, an open fireplace with a chamfered wood bressumer and stone jambs, and a 17th-century panelled door to a lobby behind the fireplace. The room to the right, also with a chamfered beam and stop-chamfered joists, features a similar fireplace, 17th-century plank doors to the rear lobby and winder stairs behind, and chamfered 17th-century heavy pegged frames to two service doorways. The first-floor room to the left has a similar fireplace and evidence of former mortices for a truss of an early 16th-century hall house. A 17th-century butt-purlin roof is also present. The house may have been remodelled by Robert Yate around 1609, and it retains a well-preserved 17th-century interior.