The Manor House Hotel

The Manor House Hotel is a manor house with origins in the 17th century. It was substantially rebuilt in the 1830s and 1850s for G.P. Scrope, and altered after 1871 for E.C. Lowndes. Later 20th-century additions were made to convert the building into a hotel. The house is constructed from rubble stone with ashlar dressings, some dating from the 1830s and 1850s, and has stone-tiled roofs with tall ashlar stacks.

The main east front features a central twin-gabled section and a projecting gabled wing of 17th-century origins, with an ashlar north end and a conservatory to the north-east dating from the 1830s and 1850s. A later 19th-century shingled bell turret is also present. All the windows are from the 19th century. The central section has sash windows with hoodmoulds to the attic left, paired windows to the first floor left, and two first-floor windows to the right, with Scrope arms displayed between them. The ground floor has large paired sashes, a Tudor-arched doorway with shields above, and a mullion-and-transom bay to the right with an earlier 19th-century pierced parapet. The gabled wing to the left has a large two-storey canted bay, dating from 1873, with carved shields and a three-light attic window. An extension to the north end has a large octagonal turret, followed by two Tudor-arched ground-floor bays, a former orangery, and a matching three-arched stone conservatory with pierced balustrade and animal finials on the piers, extending east. Above the two ground floor bays is a two-window section, canted, with mullion-and-transom first-floor windows and attic dormer gables. The south end gable has a possible 17th-century attic window and an earlier 19th-century gable to the left. The main south front is a two-storey range, added around 1830-50, gabled to the east and west with octagonal corner buttresses and a large two-storey ashlar canted bay. Traces of 17th-century work are visible in the original range set back to the left. A large 20th-century dining hall is located beyond. A service court, now obscured and roofed in the 20th century, appears to have originated in the earlier 19th century.

The interior features a hall fireplace with a bolection moulding and Scrope arms above, dating from around 1700, which is the only original feature. Fine panelling in the hall, dated 1664, was brought in from Easton Piercy House, Wiltshire, by G.P. Scrope. The former dining room to the north has an ornate plaster frieze dating from 1830-50, incorporating small Parian ware heads. The manor was owned by the Scrope family from around 1400 to 1866.