Manor Farmhouse

Manor Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the mid 18th century, built on a 17th-century core. It features red brick construction with burnt headers and ashlar dressings. The main range has a plain tile half-hipped roof and a rear stack. The building is two storeys tall with an attic and has a double front with irregularly-set early 19th-century sixteen-pane sash windows, two on each floor, and a central six-panel door set in a raised moulded surround topped with a pediment supported by acanthus scrolled brackets.

The farmhouse has a high moulded stone plinth, with mouldings extending down each side of the door and cut through for the windows, along with flush quoins and a coved stone eaves cornice. The south end wall features a similar plinth with mouldings for a ground floor sixteen-pane window, a drip course, and a sixteen-pane sash above, with the lintel flanked by flush ashlar, which may have originally formed a continuous band. The attic has a two-light ovolo-moulded window.

A straight joint, slightly inset from the junction with the rear range, indicates that the brickwork of the main range was built after that of the rear range. The north end has a moulded plinth, interrupted for an 8-16-8-pane canted bay window. The first floor features a sixteen-pane sash with a flat brick head and an attic two-light bead-moulded mullion window.

The gabled lower rear range has a plinth continued in brick on the north and south end walls, with flush quoins on the northwest and southwest corners, and a two-storey west elevation. The south end has a sixteen-pane window that breaks the plinth, with a twelve-pane window above. The west elevation has a four-window range of sashes and casements on the first floor, with ground floor ovolo-moulded two-light windows on each side of a door in a 20th-century moulded surround, along with a matching two-light window to the right, likely featuring the original door-head with an inserted mullion.

Inside, the ground floor north room has a heavy beamed ceiling with chamfers and stops, while the first floor north room boasts an 18th-century moulded stone fireplace with a 19th-century grate. The main range has a six-bay roof with collar trusses, and the north truss may date back to the 17th century or earlier. This house served as the manor house of Heddington, held by A. Brooke since 1719.