Manor House

This is a manor house, largely dating to the late 16th century, with extensions added in the 17th century to the rear. It is constructed of squared rubble with granite dressings, and has asbestos slate roofs with tall gable end rubble stacks, featuring tapered caps. A lateral stack is located on the rear left side of the main range, and a kitchen stack has slated offsets on the east side of a rear projection.

The house is arranged around a three-sided rear courtyard; the two right-angled projections to the rear were likely added in the 16th century and later extended. The main range comprises a cross-passage with a two-storey porch, and two principal rooms to each side. The facade is early and symmetrical, featuring a five-window range of three-light splayed mullions, with a cavetto moulding on the inner face. The central window is within a gabled porch with 19th-century bargeboards. A square-headed granite doorway, with a sunken, chamfered and stopped surround and hoodmould, leads to the porch, now featuring a 20th-century inner door. A continuous dripmould runs above each flanking four-light mullion. The rear courtyard has three wooden mullions above a window on the inner faces of each right-angled projection, and a further three to the west side of the left-hand projection, with varying ovolo and chamfered surrounds.

The principal room to the left of the cross-passage has an ovolo-moulded muntin screen (original planking removed), heavy stopped and chamfered beams, and an impressive four-centred arched chimneypiece with a double roll-moulded surround. The room to the right of the cross-passage retains complete plasterwork on the ceiling, divided into three sections by plastered beams, each featuring a geometrical ribbed design. The fireplace includes herringbone slatework and a chamfered lintel with scroll-stops initialled 'FI' and 'GI', dated 1624. A dog-leg 17th-century staircase has thick turned balusters to a moulded head-rail and a single similar baluster to the lower flight, supporting a moulded handrail with turned finials to round newels.

Plasterwork is present in the principal chambers; the east chamber has a frieze of acorn clusters and a geometrical ribbed design above. The chamber at the west end has similar friezes in the gable wall, above elaborate plasterwork overmantel depicting seated figures holding a strapwork surround to a central cartouche with lions’ heads and figures of Pan with male and female heads above and below. The fireback of the fireplace is herringbone slatework, and a stone lintel, possibly from the 16th or early 17th century, depicts the descent of the Eyre family. 17th-century main doors and moulded doorframes are found in the rear corridor and in the upper storey of the porch; the west chamber door has unusual rams horn stops to the jambs. 17th-century roof trusses with morticed collars remain intact.