Latimer Manor

Latimer Manor is a farmhouse dating to the 16th and early 17th centuries, with a datestone of 1617 in the upper southeast room. The building is constructed of rubble stone with stone tiled roofs and coped gables. There are two ridge stacks to the central range, end-wall stacks to the south wing and east end, and an east-end stack to the north wing. The northwest roof has a hip at the angle.

The house is arranged in an E-plan, with a south wing extending to the west and rear, and a gabled stair tower to the north. The 16th-century central range features early 17th-century window openings. A projecting gabled two-storey porch has a broad Tudor-arched doorway with a hoodmould and a three-light ovolo-moulded mullion and transom window above. The inner studded plank door is set within a moulded doorcase with a hoodmould. To the right of the porch is a four-light ovolo-moulded window with a king mullion and hoodmould on each floor. To the left is a two-light ovolo-moulded mullion and transom ground-floor window concealed behind a built-out wall, with a two-light ovolo-mullion window visible above. The rear of the central range displays 16th-century Tudor-arched flat-headed windows with hoodmoulds: a single light above and a three-light window below, alongside an oak plank door in a Tudor-arched oak frame with a timber lintel. The stair tower has a Tudor-arched single light on its west wall and an ovolo-moulded single light in its north return.

The south wing has a first-floor three-light ovolo-moulded window to its northeast return, and features a long south front with a three-window range, the centre of which is an earlier south extension of the central range, evidenced by an internal gabled roof. The upper floor has ovolo-moulded windows, one two-light and two three-light. The ground floor has windows with hoodmoulds: a two-light hollow-chamfered window to the left, a four-light chamfered mullion-and-transom with a king mullion to the centre, and a four-light ovolo-mullion with a king mullion to the right. The north wing has a three-light ovolo-mullion window with a hoodmould on each floor of its southeast return. Leaded lights are found throughout the building.

The interior of the central range exhibits fine moulded beams to the six-panel ceiling, chamfered and stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops across the passage, and a large timber lintel over the north fireplace, which has a moulded stone doorcase to the right. The staircase has an octagonal newel. The ground floor center room of the south wing features a fine Tudor-arched stone fireplace with a shelf and egg-and-dart and guilloche moulding. Stone fireplaces are also present in the upper east and west rooms, and the north wing upper east room. The centre of the house has a steep three-bay roof with double purlins and two-collar trusses. The north side roof is a 19th-century replacement.