St Anne's Manor

St Anne’s Manor, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, with a modern extension, occupies numbers 6 to 10 on St Anne's Street. Numbers 6 and 8 were formerly the main house, while number 10 is a later addition. The front facade is from the 18th century and is three storeys high, constructed of red brick with string courses at the first and second floor levels. It features a painted moulded band cornice, a tall parapet with stone coping, and an old tile roof. There are four windows on the upper floors, with architraves, and three windows on the ground floor, featuring moulded frames, panelled shutters, and a six-panelled front door. The door is set within a deep arched reveal, and has a radiating and wreathed fanlight and a doorcase incorporating engaged Tuscan columns with fluted and reeded necks, a broken entablature, a dentilled cornice, and a moulded and dentilled open pediment.

Adjoining the main block to the left is a two-storey section with a basement, built of plum-coloured brick on a projecting plinth, with raised brick quoins and a stone coping. This section has three casement windows on the first floor, two with leaded lights, one blocked. On the ground floor, there are three two-light stone mullioned and transomed casements, and three similar casements in the basement, the left-hand one blocked. A modern, single-storey extension, built in the 18th century style, is located to the left of the original building, with five windows and a central six-panelled door with an arched fanlight of a curved pattern, a reeded surround, and a moulded open dentilled pediment on scroll brackets. The windows are irregularly spaced.

The interior features a staircase with a closed string, three flights, a moulded handrail, splay-shaped balusters, and square oak newels with ornamental tops. A circa 1812 music room, single-storey, is located at the rear and incorporates an elaborately moulded cornice with acanthus leaves, dentils, egg and dart, and bead and reel strips. A good fireplace is present, alongside a tripartite window with marble Ionic pilasters to the side, freestanding columns to the centre, and good panelling and corner fireplaces in two rooms on the first floor. The door to the modern extension is possibly reset.

The building forms a group with numbers 2 to 18 (even) and numbers 1 and 3, along with Friary Court and Craddock House, The Friary, and also with the Old Bell Inn & St Anne’s Garage on Exeter Street.