Manor Farmhouse

Manor Farmhouse is a small manor house with a core dating back to the 15th century, a cross wing built around 1600, and a further range from the 17th century. It underwent alterations and additions in the 19th century. The construction is of coursed rubble, with some rendering, stone dressings, and stone slate roofs, featuring a right lateral ashlar stack and a rear central rebuilt stone stack. The house follows a U-shaped plan, with the 15th-century range on the left, the 1600 cross wing in the centre, and a further range to the right; both the end ranges project to the rear, and a service wing (now the kitchen) projects south from the left-hand, 15th-century range.

The 15th-century wing is two stories high, containing a single upper window which is a two-light chamfered mullion. The ground floor of this wing is partially obscured by the service range. The central 1600 block is also two stories high, featuring a paired eight-light cross-mullion window on the ground floor and two two-light chamfered mullions with small leaded pane casements above. A projecting porch has a cambered-headed doorway and a three-light mullion above; a six-panel door with two top lights provides access. The range to the right has a two-light 20th-century casement window on the ground floor and a two-light concrete mullion window above it. The 15th-century range has another two-light chamfered mullion window in its rear gable, and the staircase tower possesses a two-light chamfered oak mullion.

The interior of the 15th-century core range contains a dairy on the ground floor with massive chamfered beams, and a four-bay first-floor hall above, now divided, with cusped trusses and ogee-cusped wind braces. A 16th-century fireplace with polygonal bases to its shafts and some contemporary panelling are found in the northern section of the hall. A fine, wide oak newel staircase is situated in the angle between the cross wing and the central block. The central wing contains a ground floor hall, now divided, with a large, off-set fireplace, featuring columned jambs, and an early 17th-century rustic plaster ceiling displaying floral and heraldic motifs including wheatsheaves, a reference to the Hungerford family. Similar plaster ceilings with identical decoration are present in the eastern range, especially on the first floor, which houses a room with a coved ceiling – currently in poor repair. The former kitchen of the eastern range has a massive Tudor-arched fireplace. Manor Farmhouse is a fine, largely unaltered manor house, formerly the seat of the Earle family who relocated to Eastcourt in the early 18th century.