St Catherines Picards Manor

Picards Manor is a house dating from the mid to late 16th century, with an 18th-century extension to the right and late 19th-century extensions to the left. It features a timber frame clad in galleted sandstone blocks at the front centre and right, with red brick quoins and dressings, while the rear is made of rubblestone with some exposed timber framing and tile hanging. The roofs are plain tiled, with parallel ranges to the right, gabled to the left, and surrounding a central well.

The entrance front faces the garden, with the original house forming the central block. The building has two storeys and attics, featuring three hipped roof diamond-pane leaded casement dormers at the centre. There is a large square corbelled stack located behind the right of centre and additional cross ridge stacks at both ends. The left gable end has a 4-light diamond-pane casement window on the first floor and a 2-light window below. A Tudor-style door is situated to the right. The central range includes five 2-light casement windows on the first floor, one 6-light window, and two 2-light windows on the ground floor, with a door leading to the centre passage under a flat hood supported by brackets.

The right-hand return front has an M-shaped roof with diagonal brick dentilled eaves, featuring two blocked and two cambered-head windows on the first floor, along with a plat band below. The rear of the house reveals exposed tension bracing of considerable scantling. Inside, there is a butt side-purlin roof over the old range, with jowled principal posts and arched bracing. The ground floor features a hollow chamfered spine beam and a panelled over-mantle above the fireplace, along with a stone-floored dining room and passage. The house was used for a conventicle of non-conformists in August 1680 and again in July 1682.