Iford Manor

Iford Manor is a manor house that dates from the late 15th century or 16th century. It was remodeled around 1725 to 1730 and restored from 1899 onwards by Harold Peto, who made it his own residence. The building is constructed of ashlar stone and features a hipped slate roof behind a balustraded parapet that rises at the ends. It has a molded cornice and rusticated end pilasters. The manor has three storeys and five bays, with glazing bar sash windows set in architraves and under pediments on consoles on the ground and first floors. A segmental pediment is located over the central first-floor window. The central entrance is a panelled door beneath a segmental pediment, framed by a bolection-moulded doorcase.

To the left of the main house is a two-storey, two-window wing with a hipped Cotswold stone slate roof, which was formerly a matelising wing. The side elevation features a rear portion with two steep stone gables, a four-light king mullion casement window on the ground floor with ogee and hollow-moulded mullions, early 19th-century French windows with drip moulds on the first floor, and two-light casements with ovolo-moulded mullions in the gables. To the left is a projecting one-storey, three-bay arcaded loggia designed by Peto, featuring Ionic columns and medallions in the spandrels. At the far right is a single-storey attached conservatory with pilasters, a plain entablature, and glazing bar sash windows. Behind the house is an enclosed courtyard with two-storey service wings from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Inside, the Dining Hall features a finely carved 16th-century ashlar fireplace with a four-centred arch lintel and panelled jambs with cusped heads. The room is adorned with 17th-century panelling, while a panelled room from the 18th century, known as the Dean's Parlour, is located to the north of the Dining Hall. There is also a staircase from the Regency period, a Drawing Room with a panelled plaster ceiling and cornice that incorporates 15th and 16th-century Continental painted panels, which were added by Peto. Peto also integrated many fragments of sculpture and architecture into both the house and the grounds of Iford Manor.