The Manor House

The Manor House is a country house, now used as a hotel, built in 1825 as a "marine villa" for the Rt. Hon. George Bankes, and subsequently enlarged several times during the 19th century. The house is constructed of roughcast walls with a stone slate roof, which is part gabled and part hipped, and has an irregular outline broken by turrets. The chimneys are plastered with stone caps, some featuring quatrefoil panels. It is built in a picturesque style with an irregular plan, and is part one-storey and attic, part two-storey, and part two-storey and attic. All windows feature diamond-pattern lead lights.

On the main entrance front, a projecting canted bay with a hipped roof is present on the right-hand section, with single-light windows on the ground floor. The first floor of this section features curved-headed windows, each with a projecting curved head under a bracketed gable. To the left of the bay, on the ground floor, is a flat-roofed porch with oak doors, set beneath a stone gable bearing a coat of arms. The first floor above this porch has a gabled window matching those in the bay. To the right of the bay, on the ground floor, is a lean-to projection with a two-light curved-headed window. A gabled window, mirroring those in the bay, is located on the first floor above this projection. To the left of this block is a lower link building featuring a three-light curved-headed window on the ground floor, and a gabled window on the first floor, consistent with the bay windows. Further to the left is a taller canted bay, with a hipped roof, of two storeys and an attic, incorporating a three-light mullioned window on the ground floor, flanked by cross-pattern mullioned and transomed windows. The first floor features three curved-headed mullioned and transomed windows, with one hipped dormer in the attic. A circular tower with an inset carved traceried panel is located to the left of this, followed by several lower additions, some with lean-to roofs, some with flat roofs, and including the lower part of a second tower.

Internally, a re-set 18th-century staircase displays barley sugar balusters and carved spandrils. A re-set 18th-century fireplace is located on the first floor, and a Gothic style plaster vaulted ceiling is found in one first-floor room. Various sections of 17th-century carved panelling have also been re-set within the house. The property is now owned by the National Trust.