Manor Farmhouse With Attached Wall And Gate Pier

Manor Farmhouse dates to around 1700, with an earlier section at the rear and later additions and alterations. It is constructed of roughly coursed limestone rubble, with alternating ashlar bands on each floor and alternating ashlar angle quoins. The roof is of stone slate, hipped in form. The farmhouse has two storeys and five bays. All windows on the ground floor are ovolo-moulded cross windows with a continuous dripmould. The central entrance is framed by a moulded stone architrave, a pulvinated frieze, and a pediment, with a 19th-century half-glazed double door. Prominent external lateral stacks on the left and right returns have paired and rebated ashlar shafts, dripstones, and moulded capping. The left return also features narrow transomed windows on each floor to either side. A full-height range, at right angles to the rear and to the left of the main range, may be contemporary with the main house but has 19th-century segmental heads to 20th-century windows; it has an integral end stack with a dripstone and moulded capping. A short, lower-gabled range attached to the rear of this wing has a lean-to extension supported on wooden posts. A single-storey range at right angles to the rear of the main range, on the right (with agricultural buildings to the rear), may be from the 17th century and has a rebuilt 20th-century axial ridge stack. A garden wall, attached to the rear range, is likely contemporary with or slightly later than the main farmhouse. The wall is of roughly coursed limestone rubble with coping, ramped to the front corners, with a short section of ashlar towards the piers. The piers themselves are of ashlar, square-shaped, with moulded capping and bases. They enclose the farmhouse garden. Inside, the right-hand ground-floor room retains early 18th-century raised and fielded panelling, including to the dado and a door in the back wall, along with a dentilled wood cornice. It also has early 18th-century fluted pilasters flanking a 19th-century pilastered fireplace. The room features panelled window shutters. The left-hand room has a stone Adam-style fireplace surround. A 20th-century two-storey addition to the rear is not of special architectural interest.