The Manor House And Garden Wall To Front

This is an early 18th-century manor house with a front garden wall. The house is constructed of ashlar slate stone with a moulded plinth and string course, featuring dressed stone flat arches with ashlar keyblocks over the openings. A stone rubble wing is located to the rear right. The roof is covered in cement-washed rag slate, half-hipped at the ends, and includes end and axial brick chimney stacks.

The original plan consists of a front range of two rooms and a central cross passage. The left-hand room has an end stack and the right-hand room an axial stack on the rear wall. The original staircase is in a projection to the rear of the passage. The rear wing, slightly offset to the rear of the right-hand room, is of two-room plan and heated by axial and end stacks; it was partly used as a mill in the 19th century.

The symmetrical front facade is five windows wide. Masonry has been partially renewed on the right-hand side, along with the lintels. The central entrance has a six-panel door with a fanlight, set within a late 20th-century doorcase. There are four 12-pane sashes on the ground floor and five above, likely replacing earlier 18th-century sashes with heavy glazing bars. Moulded eaves have a renewed dentilled cornice.

The rear wing has a two-storey and attic front with four windows; the openings were altered and a loading bay inserted in the 19th century. Internally, the left-hand room retains complete raised and fielded panelling and shutters, along with a circa 1870s chimney-piece and 19th-century door. The right-hand room is heated by a fireplace in the rear wall, replacing an earlier fireplace in the end wall. There is 19th-century joinery throughout. The early 18th-century dog-leg staircase to the rear of the passage has an open string, turned balusters, a deep moulded and ramped rail, and a wreathed cluster of four balusters around the newel. An early 18th-century moulded cornice is above. Several raised and fielded six-panel doors and some reset windows are present. Remnants of a simple 18th-century chimney-piece remain in the rear wing, as does a reset 18th-century window with heavy glazing bars in a rear outshut.

The roof structure is of an early 18th-century design, with halved, lap-jointed, and pegged principals forming flush joints at the apices, and lap-jointed and pegged collars. The collars appear to have replaced tie-beams in the rear wing after floor level alterations.

A dressed stone wall encloses a small garden in front of the house, acting as a retaining wall with higher side walls and a central gateway.