Idmiston Manor

Idmiston Manor is a house dating from around 1600, likely built for Giles Rowbach, who died in 1633. The exterior features rendered flint with limestone dressings and a tiled roof. The building has two storeys and attics, with a cellar beneath the left section. It consists of three wide bays and has two short wings at the rear of the left bays. A mid-19th century structure, now a separate dwelling and not of special interest, has been added to the rear of the right bay, featuring its own back wing parallel to the front.

The layout includes a cross passage within a low hall that extends to the right, with a parlour on a higher level to the left. There is a dog-leg stair at the rear of the passage. The two-storey gabled porch features an open Tudor arch at ground level and paned windows above. The windows are timber paned casements, with those on the right having a mid-19th century stone floating cornice supported by brackets. The roof has three gabled dormers and gable stacks.

Inside, there is a timber-framed partition with central paired panelled doors to the left of the cross passage, leading to a fully 17th-century panelled parlour that includes a carved top frieze. The major fireplace features carved spandrels and ovolo and cyma moulded jambs, while the hall contains a lateral plain chamfered stone fireplace. Deep window reveals have panelled shutters, and the 17th-century dog-leg stair has shaped and perforated splat balusters.

On the first floor, the principal chamber over the hall is fully panelled in later 17th-century work, with bolection moulded panels, a door, and an oak cornice. The rear chamber is similarly panelled but more modestly. The attics have simply chamfered oak door surrounds and a double butt purlin roof. Notably, negotiations for the Restoration of Charles II to the English throne were initiated here with General George Monck.