Whatley Manor

Whatley Manor is a former country house that has been converted into a hotel. The building has an 18th-century farmhouse core, with extensive alterations and additions made between 1920 and 1927 by the architect Septimus Warwick from London. The early range features coursed rubble, while the 20th-century section is constructed with squared rubble and flush dressed stone quoins. The manor has wooden lintels, stone dressings around the windows, stone slate roofs, and stone stacks.

The plan of the building is irregular and U-shaped, with the 18th-century range on the left and the later additions on the right. The north entrance front is two stories tall with attics, featuring two projecting gabled sections, the left one having a half hip at the gable apex. The fenestration is scattered, including two and three-light leaded wooden casements and stone-mullioned casements with leaded lights in the 20th-century sections, some of which are in square and canted bays. There are also bull's-eye windows in the attic of the later additions. The south front shows a two-story, four-bay 18th-century range with four hipped dormers and 20th-century windows. The west facade has two fine bracketed 20th-century hoods over the doors.

Inside, there are two drawing rooms featuring very fine quality panelling and Palladian style doorcases, all dating from 1920 to 1927. Some original Jacobean panels have been reset. The elegant Palladian style staircase includes a wreathed newel, a ramped handrail, carved balusters, and tread-ends, also from the 1920-7 period.