Manor Farmhouse

Manor Farmhouse is a manor house dating to 1630, as indicated by the date on the porch gable. It is constructed of ham stone ashlar on the front elevation, with a grey rubble stone plinth. The front elevation is divided by string courses at the first and second floor levels. The side and rear walls are of grey rubble stone, formerly rendered. Ham stone quoins are present, and the roofs are covered with plain clay tiles, featuring stone gable-copings and scrolled kneelers. The gables of the front elevation extend lower and wider on their outer pitch. There are two main parallel ridges running east-west, with a cross-ridge. Brick stacks, grouped in sets of four and set diagonally, are located on the main ridges approximately halfway along.

The plan is symmetrical and double-depth, with a central hall-passage leading to the rear staircase. A detached, 17th-century service block is located immediately to the east. The front (west) elevation has two and a half storeys and five windows, each with three lights and ovolo-moulded stone mullions; the ground floor windows are cross-transomed. The windows have cast-iron casements and glazing-bars. Attic windows are similar but two-light with separate labels above. A gabled porch, also two and a half storeys high, features two-light mullions. The entrance has cyma and ovolo stone jambs, moulded imposts, and a round-headed moulded arch with a projecting keystone. Inside the porch is a square-headed doorway with a 20th-century panelled door and built-in benches. The south elevation exhibits a re-used, fossilized depressed-arch head, and smaller blocking to the right. A single-storey passage connects the main house to the service block. This passage has dressed stone walls and a doorway with a stone lintel above a plank door, dating to the 19th century.

The service block, also constructed of ham stone, has a clay tile roof, stone slab eaves, stone gable-copings, and stone stacks with chamfered cornices atop each gable. It is two storeys high and has two windows: a three-light window on the left and a two-light window with ovolo-moulded mullions. Most of the windows are fixed cast-iron. The north pitch of the roof is longer and comprises an original outshut. There are entrances from the main house via the passage, from the north outshut, from the east gable, and internally to the lane at first floor level, each featuring a plank door with strap-hinges.

Inside the main house, the hall has a flagstone floor. There are 17th-century open fireplaces in the north rear room, one with an ovolo-moulded stone shelf. Upstairs, fireplaces are set diagonally in the outer corners of the rear wall, featuring depressed-arch heads and moulded jambs, dating to the 17th century. A north rear room contains a 17th-century wood overmantel with three Ionic columns on a shelf, a modillion architrave, a fretwork frieze with three scrolls and a modillion cornice, and two recessed wood panels with own framing of enriched round arches supported on columns. These columns depict oil-sketch fantasies of moated houses with bridges. The service block includes a bakehouse with an open fireplace and a bread oven. The ceiling-beams and roof construction are intact. The house is a good example of compact manor planning of 1630.