The Manor House Including Studio And Workshop Adjoining To North

The Manor House including studio and workshop adjoining to north

A large house dating to circa 1830 with late 19th-century improvements and extensions. The building is constructed of plastered brick and local stone rubble, with stone rubble and brick stacks topped by plastered chimneyshafts, and slate roofs.

The house is planned as a double pile structure facing south-east, measuring two rooms wide. The left front room features a front lateral stack, while the smaller right room has an axial stack backing onto the cross passage between the two front rooms. This passage connects to an axial passage running between the front and back rooms, which contains two straight flight staircases. The rear contains three rooms including the kitchen with an axial stack backing onto the small right rear room, and the principal parlour as the rear left room, which projects further to the rear and has a rear end stack. The main house is two storeys with lean-to service outshots across the north-east side.

In the late 19th century, a brick entertainments or billiard room was built onto the north corner, followed shortly by a village hall behind it. Around 1980, the entertainments/billiard room was floored over and converted to an office, while the former village hall became a workshop.

The front elevation is asymmetrical with four windows, mostly 12-pane sashes, including a ground floor canted bay window right of centre featuring a tripartite sash with a central 15-pane sash. The front doorway, slightly right of centre, contains a French window with an overlight containing a pattern of coloured glass. Deep eaves are carried on pairs of shaped brackets.

The south-west garden front displays a 3:2:3-window arrangement of mostly 12-pane sashes, with the three-window sections occupying full-height canted bays. The axial passage doorway is positioned right of centre and contains a part-glazed 19th-century door. The back of the main block features a number of 19th-century casements with rectangular panes of leaded glass serving the service rooms and 12-pane sashes to the higher-status rooms.

The former entertainments/billiard room and village hall project from the northern corner facing west. The entertainments/billiard room is a tall brick building decorated with bands of cream-coloured brick bearing nailhead ornamentation. Its front projects forward in a semi-hexagonal form with buttresses at the corners. Each front face contains an oculus window high in the wall, and the roof is hipped with a terracotta finial at the apex. The former village hall is also brick, featuring a two-window front with buttresses between them, and a full-height mullion-and-transom window. Its roof is gable-ended to the left and hipped to the right.

The interior contains a great deal of original joinery and other detail, remaining little modernised in the 20th century. The finest room is the large principal parlour, which features a marble chimneypiece and ornamental plaster cornices with a ceiling rose.

The Manor with its grounds, the Manor Lodge, and the boundary wall form an important group on the eastern approach to the village.