Manor Farmhouse

Manor Farmhouse is reputedly a Benedictine hospice to St Audoen, now a farmhouse, dating primarily to the 14th century with alterations in the 17th and late 20th centuries. The building is constructed of random rubble stone with a stone slate roof featuring coped verges and saddle stones, arranged in a T-plan with a 4-bay hall range to the west of a cross wing.

The two-storey, 2-window east front has a 20th-century door and two 3-light, ovolo-mullioned casements. A blocked single light is visible on the first floor to the left, with two further 3-light, ovolo-mullioned casements to the right. The right return displays blocked openings and traces of a removed wing, while the left return features a 3-light, cyma-mullioned casement to both ground and first floors. This façade also incorporates partially blocked, pointed 14th-century windows with a hood mould featuring scroll terminals and two bands of cusped trefoils or quatrefoils over, potentially incorporating reset tracery.

The hall range to the left has a 4-panelled door set within a partially blocked painted window, featuring a hood mould with mask terminals. A buttress and planked door are situated to its left, alongside 20th-century inserted mullioned casements. The left return of the hall range has 20th-century buttresses and a single casement, while the rear shows 20th-century mullioned casements, one buttress, and a single-storey extension with a 20th-century added first floor.

The interior has been altered in the 20th century. The hall range retains three arch-braced collar trusses with curved wind bracing to the lower tier of purlins, chamfered soffits, and heavy scantling, all smoke-blackened. The principal centre truss is said to be an upper cruck. The east wall of the hall is notable for damaged remains of a tripartite arcade of cinquefoil cusped pointed arches on slender shafts with moulded capitals and triangular aedicules. The heads of the arches are above first floor level and have been removed. This feature has been suggested as a possible reredos of a chapel altar, but it is more likely a reredos to the dais at the upper end of the hall. The solar has been altered, with its roof no longer visible, but it is said to have once had an arch-braced collar rafter roof with a collar purlin on three crown posts on tie-beams, plus chamfered soffits. A pointed window to the gable end of the solar and the window over the door to the hall both have cusped rere arches with triangular heads. While reputedly a Benedictine hospice with a chapel, firm evidence for this is lacking, and the building may represent the remains of a 14th-century manor house, replaced in the 15th century by the present Manor House. No trace of the original service end of the building survives, and it is possible that these buildings were located separately.