Benville Manor

Benville Manor is an early 17th century H-plan manor house that has undergone alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries. The south elevation features rubble-stone walls and a plain tile roof with stone gable copings at both ends, the right-hand end topped with a ball finial. The house has two storeys and attics, with a total of five windows, including canted stone bays on either side of the front door. The windows are 4-light stone mullions, one of which is canted, and have hollow chamfers and labels over the ground floor windows. The central bay has been altered in the 19th century, featuring a built-up gable, coping, and a triple concrete stack. The first floor has a 3-light hollow-chamfered stone mullion window with a label above. The front door, located at the centre, is wooden with muntins and dates from the 20th century. A Tuscan Order stone porch with a flat entablature was added in the 19th century.

The west elevation is built of brick on a stone plinth, with a Flemish bond pattern and burnt headers. It has two storeys and approximately four windows, including 3-light square stone mullions with a continuous architrave from the 18th century. There are also 20th-century stone window insertions and a back door with a stone Tudor-arch head and a continuous label above.

Inside, the south-east room contains five panels of early 16th-century glass, featuring coats of arms and fragments of late medieval church glass. The south-west room has a stone fireplace with straight-chamfered jambs and tongued stops, topped with a massive stone lintel and a Tudor-arch head. There is also part of a moulded ceiling beam from the early 16th century, possibly reused. A red silk chasuble from around 1450, decorated with figures of saints, secular figures, flowers, and seraphim, is also present.

The attached walls and gate piers on the south elevation date from the 18th century, made of rubble stone with coping stones that ramp to the corners, each topped with large ball finials. The east elevation features two stone gate piers with ball finials on hollow-chamfered spurs.