Manor House

Detached house. Early 14th century and 17th century with 19th-century alterations. Rendered flint stone rubble, brick and timber frame, with brick chimneys. L-shaped plan. Early 14th-century hall house with attached chapel. One storey and attic with basement, five windows. Central ledged door in moulded case, with two-storey porch on posts; to either side are two three-light mullioned and transomed windows; to the right are two chamfered lights to the basement and a blocked two-light ogee-headed window. The attic has two gabled dormers to the left, two-light casements to a gabled porch over the door, and one dormer to the right with a two-light casement. The chapel projecting to the right has a 19th-century three-light window with hoodmould; the left return has a cusped lancet to the first floor and a small chamfered light to the basement. The right return has two cusped lancets, a single chamfered lancet to the ground floor, a blocked one to the right first floor, and a chimney with corbel table. To the right is a chamfered doorcase with a planked door to the basement and 20th-century windows to the first floor. The rear has a chimney on corbel table, a three-light casement, two chamfered lights to the basement, two 19th-century three-light windows to the ground floor, and a 20th-century door with flat stone hood on bracket; 20th-century French windows are to the right. Three dormers, one hipped, project from the roof. A wing to the right has a 19th-century three-light window and two-light casement to the attic.

Interior: The hall has an inserted floor and oak panelling of circa 1600, an oak fireplace surround with fluted pilasters, and an overmantel with Raleigh arms on panels. The chapel has an inserted floor of circa 1600, a bolection-moulded fireplace and panelling of late 17th century, and a pointed barrel-vaulted plaster ceiling. The chapel opens off the northern, upper end of the hall. A timber-framed partition separates the screens passage; spiral stairs and newel stairs were inserted circa 1800. The four-bay 14th-century roof over the hall has double-chamfered arch-braced collar trusses with curved wind-bracing to butt purlins. The chapel roof has eleven pairs of rafters and collars with arched braces.

The manor was an endowment to Winchester College by William of Wykeham in 1380. It was later leased by Elizabeth I and occupied in the early 17th century by the brother of Sir Walter Raleigh, who improved the house.