Manor House

Detached manor house, dating from the early 17th century. Constructed of random rubble stone with a stone slate roof, it features ashlar stacks with moulded cappings and saddleback coped verges. The house is arranged in an L-shape. The main range is two storeys high with three windows. A gabled stone porch has a round-arched doorway with a keystone, imposts, and dripstone. The inner door is ledged and set within a Tudor-arched stone surround, with a three-light ovolo-mullioned casement window on either side. A continuous string course runs over the lintels of the windows. The first floor has three-light mullioned casement windows on either side of the porch, and a lintel string course above. Two full gabled dormers each have a three-light mullioned casement with a hoodmould and finials to the coped verges. A projecting wing to the left has two three-light ovolo-mullioned casements to the ground floor, one to the first floor, and a full gabled dormer. The front of the wing has a three-light mullioned casement on each of the ground, first, and attic floors. The right return of the main range shows a large external stack, while the left return features a three-light mullioned casement to the ground floor and a two-light mullioned casement to the attic, along with two large gabled stacks. The rear of the house has a two-light and a five-light mullioned casement, along with two gabled attics mirroring those on the front. A single-storey wing was added to the right in 1909.

The interior retains moulded beams and exposed joists on the ground floor, Tudor-arched stone fireplaces, and a bolection-moulded fireplace on the first floor. A fine stone fireplace, originally from the first floor drawing room, was reset in the drawing room in 1909, featuring a segmental pediment with carved fish on volutes, mask corbels, a frieze with cartouches and heraldic arms supported on pilasters with guilloche ornament, and an ovolo-moulded doorway to the hall. The house was likely built for Sir John Horton, whose family owned the property in the 17th century. It represents a good example of a 17th-century stone manor house in North Wiltshire. The house was restored circa 1909 by Mr. Schmidt.