The Manor House

The Manor House is a house dating from the early 17th century, constructed of ashlar with a stone tiled roof, coped gables, and end-wall stacks featuring three diagonal shafts. It is a building of group value. The north front is three-gabled, with a large, projecting central stair tower. A parapet tops the main facade, featuring three moulded coped gables above three ovolo-moulded, three-light recessed mullion windows with hoodmoulds. The ground and first floors likely originally had moulded plinths and dripcourses that extended around a two-storey bay on each side; these are now replaced by flush walling, featuring 18th-century-style, three-light, bead-moulded flush mullion windows with dripcourses that were not replaced. The central section retains original fenestration, with two two-light windows to the first floor and two similar windows to the ground floor, flanking a central plank door with a stepped dripcourse. All windows have ovolo-moulding. A raised, moulded surround features on the plank door. The east end of the wall has one two-light window to each floor, and the west end has one blocked two-light window; dripcourses continue around. The stair tower has a two-light window with a hoodmould to its north and west faces at attic level, a two-light window with a hoodmould at the first floor to the north and east, and a ground-floor Tudor-arched moulded doorway with a flanking three-light window, both under a single hoodmould. To either side of the stair tower are three-light attic windows with hoodmoulds, three-light first-floor windows, and ground-floor windows partially obscured by later additions. The interior includes Tudor-arched stone fireplaces with stone shelves above to each end of the ground floor, a moulded stone inner north doorcase, a fine oak spiral stair, and moulded oak doorcases and plank doors to the first floor and attic. First-floor fireplaces are of an early 18th-century style. The house is marked on a map of 1630 by F. Allen.