Putsborough Manor House And Attached Barn To Rear Including Garden Walls On 3 Sides To Front Of House

Putsborough Manor House is an early 17th-century house with an attached barn at the rear, including garden walls on three sides in front of the house. The building is constructed of rubble, rendered on the upper storey and around the ground floor openings. It features a thatched roof with gable end rubble stacks, an axial stack, and a lateral stack at the rear, which is enclosed in a two-storey outshut. The barn has a half-hipped thatched roof.

The main range of the house follows a three-cell and cross-passage plan, although the internal partitions have been altered, resulting in the hall being divided. Part of the dwelling extends into the barn at the rear, forming an L-shape, with a further outbuilding at the lower end that was converted into part of the dwelling in the early 20th century. This includes a partly rounded single-storey extension at the rear with a thatched roof in the left side angle of the L-shape.

The house is two storeys high and has an eight-window range of two-light casements with nine panes and three panes above, each light featuring eyebrow dormers. There is an off-centre projecting porch with a half-hipped thatch roof, and the porch door is panelled, half-glazed with nine panes and margin glazing bars. All ground floor casements are two-lights with eight panes each, except for French windows inserted at the upper end. Inside, there is a wide hall fireplace with a chamfered lintel and a chamfered and stopped ceiling beam. The chamber over the lower end has a moulded plaster cornice and a plaster roundel on one wall, initialled AH and dated 1712. The building retains roughly hewn 17th-century trusses and purlins.

The rear barn extension features an early doorway with an ovolo-moulded surround with scroll stops and an early ledged door made of five boards with nailed cover strips. The barn itself has two exposed raised cruck trusses with nailed collars and two sets of trenched purlins. The garden walls, made of rubble with various upright stone cappings, enclose the garden on three sides in front of the house, and there is a small doorway with a Jacobethan door on the left side of the front wall.