Northcote Manor

Northcote Manor is a large house, now a hotel, with origins in the late 17th and early 18th centuries (a 1716 date plaque has been removed). It was significantly remodelled and enlarged in the late 19th century. The house is built of unrendered stone rubble, roughly coursed to the original range, with ashlar dressings, and has slate roofs with gable ends. Tall ridge and gable end stacks have ashlar quoins, moulded caps and offsets.

The original plan consisted of a lower end and a two-storey porch, which survive as part of the 17th-century range on the left. The higher end of the house to the right of the porch was completely rebuilt in the late 19th century as a two-bay gable-ended range, with a large, asymmetrical gabled wing set at an obtuse angle. An imposing entrance porch was added to the front of the upper end, creating an overall L-shaped plan. A parallel service range with a projecting porch was added to the rear of the main range at the same time. The 19th-century additions are in a Tudor style.

The original 17th/early 18th-century core has a two-window range to the left of the porch. This incorporates 16-paned sash windows; the left-hand window lacks horns, and there is a similar sash above a four-light casement with Gothick pointed arched glazing. These windows have slightly cambered arches and flush sash boxes. The porch has a hipped roof and a 16-paned sash window above a semi-circular arched doorway with dressed stone voussoirs.

The late 19th-century range has stone cavetto mullions, with two panes per light. Ground floor windows are transomed, with relieving arches. To the right of the porch is a two-window range and a canted bay window to the ground floor, incorporating a stone four-centred arched doorway. The wing at the upper end is asymmetrical, with three gables, with apex finials stepping up in size from left to right. There is a single light window to the left of three-light windows on each floor. The gabled entrance bay breaks forward slightly and has a straight-headed mullion window of two four-centred arched lights with a label hoodmould above a large four-centred arched doorway with an ogee-hollow moulded surround. A heraldic stone crest is positioned above the doorway. The original door consists of two studded leaves with cover strips. A two-storey canted bay window is to the right.