The Manor House

The Manor House is a house dating from the early 17th century, with an earlier wing on the right, and later alterations from the late 17th and mid-19th centuries. It is constructed of uncoursed limestone rubble with dressed quoins and stone dressings, with mid-19th century masonry to the left wing. The roof is covered with gabled stone slate, featuring a large stone ashlar ridge stack with four moulded flues, a stone ridge stack to the right wing, and a mid-19th century lateral stack to the left wing. The house is a two-unit hall range with cross wings. It is two storeys high, with a five-window front, incorporating the gable ends of the wings. A mid-19th century six-panel door with a fanlight, set within a wood architrave, is located to the left of the hall range; a stone porch has a late-18th century segmental-arched doorway with a keyblock and moulded imposts. Late-18th century and mid-19th century paired sash windows with horns are set beneath timber lintels on the ground floor, with 20th century and one 19th century two-light casements above. The gable ends of the cross wings have timber lintels over 20th century casements to the left and blocked windows to the right, while the left side wall of the earlier right wing has a round-arched doorway blocked in the early 17th century. The rear features a two-storey service range and a stair turret with a two-light wood-mullioned window, constructed of similar materials. Inside, the hall range’s ground floor has a screen passage to the left and a hall with stop-chamfered, quartered beams and a remodelled open fireplace. The stairs retain original newel treads from the first floor to the attic and a 17th-century newel post. The first floor of the hall range includes a late-17th century gallery with a moulded cornice, chamfered and boxed beams, a late-17th century bolection-moulded room to the right, a bolection-moulded fireplace, and remnants of a fleur-de-lys from what was originally an early 17th century plastered ceiling in the central room. Mid-18th century panelling and a moulded cornice are located to the left. The collar-truss roof incorporates butt purlins and arched windbraces. The right wing has stop-chamfered beams with flat-laid joists. The roof was not inspected.