Manor House

This is a large manor house built between 1862 and 1869 by Ewan Christian for Edward Pleydell Bouverie. It now serves as a junior boarding house for Dauntsey's School. The house is constructed of red brick with blue brick patterning and stone dressings, topped with a slate roof. The design is in an Elizabethan revival style, developing from the domestic Gothic styles of Pearson and Daukes.

The main block comprises three bays and connects to a larger service block, which in turn links to stables and carriage houses, forming a courtyard to the north-east. An imposing, asymmetrical entrance on the north side leads indirectly to a large central hall. The porch features strapwork pilasters, a dentilled cornice, and a blind traceried parapet arched at the centre, with ball finials at the corners. An arched opening provides access over four steps, with a gable above bearing the initials EPB and the date 1865. The hall has a lettered parapet reading "PATRIA CARA CARIOR LIBERTAS”. Mullioned and transomed windows are found throughout, with bay windows and canted bays, some featuring a round arch to the central two lights of four. The bays are gabled, with stone kneelers and copings. The octagonal brick chimneys are moulded with the letters B and strapwork, and have projecting tops. Coats of arms are displayed in the gables.

The service block features a central corridor, and its south front displays a five-bay round arched arcade which stops at a tall clock tower with an ogee lead roof and ball finial. The arcade continues beyond for four bays, terminating in a three-bay arcaded gable. The stables and carriage houses are in a similar style, single-storey with attics, gabled, enclosing a paved yard, and with a stone gate pier at the entrance.

The interior features an entrance lobby with a fireplace, leading left to a two-storey, single-aisled main hall. The arcade has polished marble columns and carved stone capitals supporting depressed two-centred arches, and a tiled floor to the aisle. A columned stone fireplace has an entablature and scrolled fascia. A first-floor balcony is cantilevered. A timber staircase with twisted balusters is located at the south-west end, behind the entrance lobby. A stained glass window on the stair bears the owner’s initials, with an architect's panel underneath reading “E Christian 1865”. A games room in the south-east corner has carved stained pine overmantels, marble slips, and encaustic tiles to the fireplace, and a ceiling with moulded ribs forming polygons. The refectory in the south-west corner features a similar fireplace, with a tiled interior, and another contemporary fireplace with coloured marbles set between the two rooms. The building was constructed by the contractor Futcher and Bentliff.