Landford Manor

Landford Manor is a large detached house, originally built around 1600, with a south wing added around 1680. Further additions were made in 1885 and 1929. The house is constructed of English bond brick with limestone quoins and dressings, and has tiled roofs and brick stacks. It is arranged in an L-shape.

The main front has three stories and five window bays, with a fenestration pattern dating to around 1717. A chequered plinth of flint and limestone runs along the base. The central entrance door features eight fielded panels set within a moulded architrave, topped with a cornice resting on consoles, and includes a grotesque head as a keystone. Flanked on either side of the central bay on all floors are twelve-pane sashes with segmental heads and keystones. String courses define the floor levels. The central bays of the first and second floors have square-headed sashes, also with grotesque head keystones; the thick glazing bars have been retained in the second-floor sashes. A panelled brick blocking course centrally displays the arms of the John Eyre family, dating to around 1717. To the right is a bay added in around 1885, featuring an offset brick stack. The right return has a two-storey canted bay with mullion and transomed windows, and a two-light ovolo-mullioned window to the attic. The roof has saddleback coped verges and groups of diagonally-set stacks with stepped capping.

The rear elevation exhibits two projecting gables from the original house, displaying two-, three- and four-light mullioned and transomed windows. Coped gables with pinnacles are present, and the left gable features a sundial. Between these bays is a mullioned and transomed window from the 19th century. A cross window is located on the first floor, and a hipped dormer in the attic. A large porch, dating to around 1914, is situated to the right, featuring a verandah supported by wooden posts, Tudor-arched doorways, and windows in a matching style.

The rear wing, added around 1680, has four bays with cross windows on the ground and first floors. It contains a coved plaster cornice and three hipped dormers with two-light leaded casements. A south addition to the wing, dating to 1929, includes a two-storey bay with mullioned and transomed windows, and three-light ovolo-mullioned windows to the attic gables. Attached to the east of the wing are service buildings from 1929, single-storey with an attic, featuring Tudor-arched doorways and cross windows. The left return from the front has an external stack, blocked windows to the right, and a twelve-pane sash to the left. A straight joint marks the division between the front and the early 18th-century rear wing, which has cross windows, a coved cornice and hipped dormers in the roof. A 19th- and 20th-century addition is situated to the left, mirroring the style of the original wing.

The interior of the entrance hall features early 18th-century panelling and composite pilasters. The rear stair turret has a staircase with three turned balusters per tread and carved spandrels; the doors have six fielded panels. A reset oak overmantel, with Tuscan columns dating to around 1600, is present above a ground-floor fireplace. Late 17th-century panelling can be seen on the first floor of the main range and in the south wing, which also has a late 17th-century staircase with turned balusters.

The original construction was carried out by the Stanter family, followed by additions from the Davenants around 1680, and alterations to the front in 1717 by the Eyre family. In the 19th century, the property was owned by the Nelsons of Trafalgar. 20th-century additions were made for Sir Frederick Preston.