Buzzacott Manor

Buzza Cott Manor is a large house dating to around 1800, with alterations and an extension added in the late 19th century. It is built of painted stuccoed stone rubble with a hipped slate roof, culminating in a substantial brick ridge stack featuring eight pots. A decorative modillion cornice runs along the roofline. The main part of the house is rectangular, planned with a principal room on each side of the entrance hall. A grand staircase is positioned behind the right-hand room, and a separate servants' staircase is located at the rear of the left-hand room. A service wing, extended in the late 19th century, connects to the rear left side, creating an overall L-shaped plan. The house has three storeys and five bays. The facade is symmetrical, with 3-over-6 paned sash windows to the upper storey and 12-paned sashes elsewhere, except for a late 19th-century bay window to the ground floor left of the porch, featuring a double sash window. A tripartite sash window is situated above the porch. A dentilled cornice shelters the porch canopy, supported by 20th-century replacement columns. The panelled door surround includes engaged pilasters, a fluted frieze, and a six-panelled door. There is a three-window range to the right end, with the central windows being blind. Those to the two upper storeys contain Adam-style urns with swag decoration within the drums. A large, pointed arched Gothick stair window with intersecting glazing bars is to the rear, lighting the principal staircase, and a tall 68-paned sash window illuminates the servants' stair at the left end. Inside, the entrance hall and first-floor landing feature pointed archways with fluted keystones and panelled soffits, flanked by pilasters. A dog-leg staircase has a wreathed handrail, turned newels, stick balusters, and a moulded string. The original 19th-century joinery, including six-panelled doors, remains largely intact.