Fryer Mayne Manor

Fryer Mayne Manor is a manor house situated within its own grounds. The core of the building dates to the early 17th century and was likely designed by John Williams, initially comprising three ranges around a courtyard, which was open to the west. In the second quarter of the 19th century, the Cockeram family rebuilt the east and south ranges in an eclectic 17th-century style, partially infilling the courtyard.

The east elevation, which serves as the entrance front, features coursed rubble stone walls with string courses above the first and second floor windows. It is roofed with clay tiles and has stone gable copings, ogee moulded kneelers with ball finials, and carved apex finials. Brick stacks, grouped and with moulded brick cornices, are situated on a stone plinth to the left of centre on the ridge. The house is two stories and attics, with a two-and-a-half-story gabled porch at centre. This front has three windows with three-light mullions, having ovolo moulding and single iron casements, dating to the 19th century. The porch windows are similarly constructed with hollow-chamfered stone mullions, the upper window having a classical cornice. A reset medieval head corbel sits above the top window. The entrance itself features two chamfered orders, 17th-century jewelled responds, a round arch made up of two chamfered orders with a dropped, faced keystone, and a large nailhead ornament in the position of a label. The front door is planked and studded with strap hinges, dating to the 19th century, while the inner door is wood and glazed with a two-centred head and quatrefoils in the spandrels, also 19th century.

The south elevation was rebuilt in the mid-19th century. It is characterized by three gables of irregular height, two of which project, and features moulded kneelers with ball finials and apex finials. Irregularly placed brick stacks on stone bases are grouped in twos, threes, or fours. The elevation has one-and-a-half to two-and-a-half stories and irregularly placed windows, with four-light and three-light mullion and transom windows, ovolo moulded, and with iron casements. A ground-stage buttress is located at the centre of the second gabled bay and in the angle to the right side of this bay. An elaborately gabled half dormer window of two lights sits to the left of centre; the gable is pedimented with a semi-circular keyed pediment. Below this window is a two-leaf door leading to the garden, glazed in the upper half, dating to the 19th century.

The west elevation includes an extension with a gabled servants' hall, featuring rubble walls, a stone and clay tile roof, two and three-light mullions, and a 20th-century door. The interior of the manor house contains entirely 19th-century fittings. Historically, a medieval house belonging to the Knights Hospitallers occupied this site.