Morton'S House Including Attached Outbuildings And Front Boundary Wall

Manor House, now used as a hotel, dating from the late 16th to early 17th century, with later 17th-century additions to the rear. The building is constructed of roughly dressed ashlar walls with ashlar dressings, and has slate roofs with stone eaves courses and coped gables. Stone stacks are located at each end of the main range and at the rear. The plan is irregular in an 'E' shape. The structure is partly one storey and attic, and partly two storeys high. Features include a chamfered plinth and a string course at first floor level. A two-storied gabled porch is centrally located on the front range, with a moulded round-arched outer doorway and a 4-centred arched inner doorway, containing a panelled door. A 2-light stone mullioned window with lead lights and a hoodmould is situated above the porch on the first floor. Similar windows are on each side of the porch, with those on the upper floor set within gabled dormers. Projecting wings at each end have 2-light stone mullioned windows with lead lights on the ground floor, and similar windows with hoodmoulds on the first floor. A single-light attic window is present in the left wing. The inner face of the left wing has a 2-light and a 4-light window on the ground floor, and a gabled dormer with a 3-light window in the attic. The inner face of the right wing has a 4-light window on the ground floor and a 4-centred arched doorway. An attic dormer with a 3-light window also features here. Attached outbuildings, likely dating to the 19th century and built of rubble stone with stone slate roofs, are located on the north side and at the rear. Internally, a ground floor room in the right wing is lined with oak panelling featuring classical pilasters and an enriched cornice, and has a stone fireplace with a 4-centred arch. The hall contains a similar fireplace, together with a staircase with a cut string, moulded balusters, and carved spandrel brackets. A first floor room in the right wing has a stone fireplace in an early Renaissance style with strapwork detail on the frieze. The front boundary wall is constructed of rubble stone with a simple capping. A 4-centred archway is centrally located, also with moulded capping. Wing walls at each end connect the wall to the main house and are probably from the early 20th century.