Manor House

Manor House is a house dating to circa 1820, reportedly built for a Mr James Scott. The exterior is rendered in incised painted stucco, topped with a hipped slate roof. The building comprises a two-storey-over-basement section to the left and a lower two-storey range to the right, with a 20th-century service range at the far right end. The original garden front faces south, with a three-bay return to the east; the entrance front is now to the north.

The north-facing entrance front features an eaves soffit. It has two twelve-pane, glazing-bar sash windows on the first floor to the left, and a tripartite glazing-bar sash window below. To the right are two six-pane sashes in the attic, a nineteen-pane glazing-bar sash on the first floor, and three twelve-pane glazing-bar sashes below. A shallow break in the centre provides space for an arched staircase window extending through the upper floors. A 20th-century entrance porch with a six-panel door flanked by fixed windows has been added. A wide, 20th-century pedimented portico supported by two marble-painted columns, with an abstracted triglyph frieze above, is a later addition. The right side has extensions with a ribbed lead roof that steps down.

The east-facing return front shows three first-floor twelve-pane sash windows and an angled bay on the ground floor to the left. The south-facing garden front has five bays, including four twelve-pane glazing-bar sash windows to the first floor and a casement window to the first floor on the left. Central angle bays have tent-roofed verandahs supported by paired, lotus-leaf capital columns; tripartite sashes are positioned behind the verandahs.

The interior features high-quality mid-19th century decoration in the main reception rooms including the drawing room, tent room and dining room. The dining room has a panelled ceiling with low-relief plaster mouldings and an ornately moulded cornice. It contains six-panelled doors with ornately moulded friezes, each topped with swags and putti. The drawing room showcases a trompe-l'oeil arrangement of panels framed by pilasters ornamented with classical foliate and floral motifs. The doors have ornamented panels and moulded friezes, with crown putti set in medallions framed by tendrils and flowers. A marble fireplace with an over-mantle—a large mirror set in an ornately carved frame of pilasters with tendrils and flowers—is a prominent feature. The cornice arches over a relief of flowers in a vase. Two full, flat-arched window mirrors, each crowned with swags and a mask head, add further detail. A wide, flat arch with scrolls leads into the Tent Room, which features a trompe-l'oeil canopy ceiling, pilaster-framed pointed panels ornamented with swags, and inset painted busts of Shakespeare and Sir Walter Scott.