Alcombe Manor

Alcombe Manor is a house with late 17th and 18th century main phases, but incorporating late medieval origins and altered and extended in the 20th century. It is constructed of rubble stone with stone tiled roofs. The house has a rambling plan and two storeys with an attic. The east front is divided into three sections. The central section, forming an L-shape, likely dates to the late 17th or early 18th century and has coped gables, stacks at the ends, and a hipped dormer to the east front. It features recessed ovolo moulded mullion windows: two 2-light windows to the first floor, and a 5-light window below. The north gable has an attic window of two lights, and a ground floor two-light window to the rear wall. A rear wing, on its north side, contains small two-light windows, each with a hood mould on both floors, the lower window being partially blocked. It also features a slightly higher two-window range with a two-light and a three-light window on the first floor, over a ground floor two-light and four-light window, all with hood moulds. The west end wall shows an attic light and a first floor single light, both with hood moulds. The right section has a north end stack and an upper 18th century two-light, flush, cyma moulded window on both front and rear elevations. A 20th century door with a hood on brackets and a Morley family armorial panel is located on the front, alongside a small late medieval two-light window with cusped pointed lights. The rear ground floor displays two 20th century small three-light windows designed to imitate medieval style. Running at a right angle from the north end is a two-storey range with mullion windows, dated 1916 on a rainwater head. The left section of the main front, seemingly 18th century, has a coped south gable and flush, cyma-moulded mullion windows. It includes a four-light window to the first floor front, a three-light window and a 20th century two-light window below, and a three-light window to the south end of the first floor, with a mullioned stone tiled square bay window on the ground floor. A mansard-roofed range, apparently late 18th century, extends west from the south end, and features end wall stacks; it contains one earlier three-light, ovolo moulded window on the rear elevation. The south front has two dormers, a first-floor three-light window and two two-light windows, separated by a central long stair light with a transom, and a ground floor 20th century stone tiled square bay window. A 20th century lean-to connects to a 1930s large cross wing, gabled to the north and south. The interior was not inspected.