Manor House

Manor house, dating back to the 17th century, with significant remodelling in the early 18th century for George White and further alterations in the early 19th century. The building has walls constructed of coursed rubble stone, with the front wall being plastered. The hipped roof is tiled, featuring moulded eaves cornices, and is supported by rubble end stacks. Originally designed with a U-shaped plan, it now includes projecting wings at the rear and an added porch between them.

The building is two storeys high with an attic. The north front, intended as the entrance, is plastered and features pilasters at each end and on either side of a central doorway. The lower parts of the pilasters are rusticated, while the upper parts are panelled. An open portico, supported by four Roman Doric columns, sits above the doorway, topped with an entablature featuring a metope frieze and cornice. The doorway itself is round arched, moulded, and topped with a fanlight and a pseudo-Tudor oak door. The ground floor of the north front has four sash windows with glazing bars, each set within a plastered flat arch. The first floor has three similar windows. The attic has three flat-roofed dormers, each with a sash window and glazing bars. The east-facing wall is of exposed rubble. An elaborate modillion cornice runs along the wall’s centre, raised to form a gable displaying a Coat of Arms. A central glazed door is present, flanked by sash windows with glazing bars on each floor.

The south-facing garden front has a central two-storey porch with glazed doors in a classical surround. Above these doors is a balcony with ornamental iron railings, accessed by French doors. Flanking the balcony are round arched windows on each floor, with sash windows and glazing bars. The end wings feature a single sash window with glazing bars on each floor. Evidence suggests earlier, wider windows were once present, as are indications of this in the inner-facing side walls. A 19th-century brick service range with a parapet is located at the south-west corner, containing two storeys over a cellar and sashes with glazing bars. A single-storey service range runs north of this, across a service yard, featuring a rubble stone front wall with round arched windows using Gothic glazing.

Inside the building, a geometrically patterned staircase from the early 19th century features a wreathed handrail and spandrel brackets. A ground floor room on the south-east side has raised panelling, a carved 18th-century fireplace surround, and a semi-circular niche. Other rooms retain 18th-century moulded cornices and doors with reeded architraves.