The Manor House

The Manor House is a house dating from the early 17th century, with possible origins in an earlier structure. It was altered in the early 19th century and extended significantly in 1905. The house is constructed of rubble stone with stone slate roofs. The original part of the house is long and low, featuring two ridge stacks and end stacks; the west stack is incorporated into the 1905 block. It is two storeys high with a projecting, mansard-roofed wing extending south from the east end. The original windows were recessed, hollow-moulded mullion windows, but the first-floor windows have been altered with the insertion of early 19th-century cast-iron, small-paned casements with Tudor-arched heads. Some matching early 19th-century windows are also present. The ground-floor windows are large, 19th-century three-light mullion windows with plate glass and hoodmoulds, extending to floor level. On the front, a coped-gabled projecting porch flanks two ground-floor windows, sheltering a 17th-century plank door with applied decoration in the form of a lozenge and two eroded figures. The porch roof incorporates reused Jacobean-style panelling. The first floor has two-light, two-light, and three-light windows; the central window is entirely from the early 19th century. To the right of the main ridge stack, a former door to a cross passage, now a window, is accompanied by a 20th-century copy window and a door into the projecting wing. Further windows include two first-floor two-light windows, and an early 19th-century three-light window matching those elsewhere. The mansard-roofed wing terminates at an obtuse angle, possibly indicating a remodelling of an older range. The end wall has a 20th-century copy ground-floor window and an early 19th-century three-light window. The east end of the main range features a substantial addition. The rear of the house has various additions, but the original stair gable survives, featuring a large three-light hollow-moulded mullion-and-transom stair light with leaded lights and one iron opening light. An altered attic window includes 18th-century inserted casements. The large 1905 west addition is not considered to be of particular architectural interest and is characterised by plain tiling, a chimney gable, and long mullioned windows with hoodmoulds and depressed-arched heads to the lights. Inside, a former rear door to the through passage bears the initials 'IMK', the date 1612, and the initials 'T' and 'K' linked by a heart, believed to relate to the Kent family, owners from 1600, and their marriage in 1612. One fireplace incorporates an overmantel constructed from an elaborate early 17th-century carved bed; other pieces are incorporated into a sideboard and possibly also into the porch roof. The house is currently divided into three separate dwellings: the Manor House, Winsley Manor, and the 1905 House.