Manor House

Manor House is a house dating from around 1700, with later extensions in the 18th and early 19th centuries. It is constructed of rubble stone, originally roughcast, with ashlar dressings and a hipped stone slate roof. The house features two rear stacks and has a seven-window, two-storey front with an ashlar plinth, a moulded string-course, and a plain band beneath a roughcast parapet. The removal of the roughcast reveals that the original structure had five bays, with the two wider-spaced bays on the right added later. The windows are 12-pane sashes, which may have replaced earlier stone cross windows, and have cement render frames. In the fourth bay of the original range, there is a six-panel door set in a fine bolection-moulded doorcase. The two added bays have a dripcourse that is stepped over the ground floor sashes. The south front has a similar four-window arrangement with ridge and west stacks, and it shows similar detailing, with revealed cornerstones indicating that the first three bays are original. At the rear, there is a two-storey-and-attic early 19th-century range with various sashes, one round-headed stair-light, and a lean-to on the north wall. The house was owned by the Coleman family of the Greathouse, which is notable as the birthplace of the mother of the diarist Francis Kilvert, who wrote about his visits to his uncle, Walter Coleman.