The Manor House

The Manor House is a manor house, dated 1659, with possible earlier fabric to a rear wing. It is constructed of rubble stone with ashlar dressings and stone tile roofs. The main range is three and a half storeys high, featuring a coped south gable with a finial, a ridge stack, a north end stack, and a west end outside stack to the rear wing.

The east front has a three-window arrangement with three coped dormer gables and finials. Flush quoins and oblo-moulded mullion windows feature hoodmolds. There are three attic windows, and the main floors have three-light mullion and transom first floor windows and four-light ground floor windows with king-mullions. A fine, projecting, two-storey central porch has a cornice and scrolled pediment with a finial. The date “SR 1659” is carved on the porch. Scrolled half-pediments with a finial motif in relief decorate the sides of the main wallface. A first floor three-light mullion and transom window has a pointed head subdividing the centre top light into two. A cornice sits below, with a central keystone and a Tudor-arched moulded doorway. A moulded Tudor-arched inner doorcase frames a fine 17th-century panelled door.

The south end gable has a three-light attic window, a four-light first floor window with a hoodmould, and a ground floor four-light window with a king-mullion and hoodmould. A wing to the left incorporates a first-floor 20th-century single light and a four-light window over a ground floor 18th-century three-light flush cyma-moulded window, all with hoodmoulds. A similar 18th-century window is present on the north side of the wing, with an early 17th-century three-light recessed hollow moulded window with a hoodmould positioned above. The west end wall is rough rendered with a small square upper light.

The centre of the west front presents a gabled stair tower with a two-light hoodmoulded window on each floor, the ground floor window being hollow-moulded. Set back to the left is a gabled one-window range similar to the main east front, with a 20th-century replacement four-light ground floor window. To the north is a two-storey range with a ridge stack and 20th-century ovolo-moulded mullion windows to the east and west. The west side has two chamfered flush doorcases, possibly 18th century, one with 20th-century carved arms above.

The interior features fine 17th-century stone fireplaces to the ground floor south room, first floor south, and south west. There is an exceptional carved fireplace to the first floor north, featuring fluted pilasters, a stone shelf above, and a Tudor-arched opening with "S and R" carved in the spandrels. Ground floor panelled doors are set in scratch-moulded doorcases, one having moulded panelling above and a carved monogram to the jamb. A 18th-century curved-head corner cupboard is located in the ground floor south west room. Two beams with run-out stops to chamfer are also found in this room. A fine 17th-century closed string stair has a heavy moulded rail, square newels with caps and pendants, and carved balusters with raking Ionic-type capitals.

The house belonged to the Snell family from the early 17th century.