Manor Farm

Manor Farm is a farmhouse dating from around 1560, likely built or substantially rebuilt for Sir John Thynne during the 1560s, a period contemporary with the rebuilding of Longleat House. The building is constructed of English bond brick with a tiled roof and features groups of diagonally-set brick stacks. The layout includes a through passage to the left of the hall, with a lateral stack, and rear wings that flank a courtyard.

The farmhouse is two storeys and an attic, originally with five windows. The front elevation has a Tudor-arched doorway with a ribbed door and a square sundial situated above it, to the left of centre. There are two three-light hollow-chamfered mullioned casements with hoodmoulds and one four-light mullioned and transomed casement to the right. To the left, there is a four-light and a three-light mullioned casement, also with hoodmoulds. The first floor has three three-light mullioned and transomed casements to the centre, with a four-light mullioned casement on either side. Three attic gables each contain a three-light mullioned casement with a hoodmould. A large lateral stack is positioned to the right, with offsets incorporated into the gable to its right.

The right return side has a planked door inserted into what was originally a cross window, as well as a four-light mullioned and transomed casement to the first floor and one blocked. The attic gables feature three-light mullioned casements. The left return has two-light mullioned casements to the ground, first and attic floors, alongside a lean-to extension containing a 20th-century casement window to the left.

The rear elevation consists of symmetrically-placed gabled wings. The left wing includes a basement with a two-light mullioned casement, and three-light mullioned casements to the other floors. The wing to the right has similar windows and a buttress with offsets facing the courtyard. The rear of the main range has an external stone stack to the hall fireplace, a blocked Tudor-arched doorway in a 19th-century lean-to porch, and a mullioned and transomed casement to the right.

Internal features, noted during a survey in June 1986, are said to include a blocked open stone fireplace in the hall to the right of the entrance, some wainscot panelling, and staircases in both wings. The kitchen was formerly located in the east wing.