Hampstead Manor

Hampstead Manor is a house comprising a 16th-century north wing and a late 16th/early 17th-century south wing, originally a farmhouse. It is constructed of stone rubble, with a slate roof featuring gabled and half-hipped ends. The house has two storeys and a four-window front, with various casement windows. A moulded doorframe is centrally positioned in the cross-passage, leading to a panelled door. A similar doorframe is located at the rear of the cross-passage. The south cross-wing has a roof with a half-hipped end facing the front and a gabled end at the rear, displaying two large window openings on both the ground and first floors, each with large ovolo-moulded lintels. A three-light ovolo-moulded wooden mullion window is present on the ground floor. Stone external chimney stacks, featuring set-offs, stand on either side of the cross-wing, and there is a rendered chimney stack at the north gable end. An early 19th-century outbuilding, now incorporated into the house, extends from the south end.

Inside the north wing, jointed cruck trusses are visible. The cross-passage features plank and muntin screens with bead moulding on the muntins. A heavy, moulded wooden doorframe within the cross-passage has baluster-shaped carved stops; a similar doorframe is situated above on the first floor. At the north end is an open fireplace with a massive wooden bressummer and an oven, alongside a framed open-well staircase with a chamfered handrail, square newels with moulded tops, a wide unmoulded closed string, and square chamfered balusters. The cross-wing contains large, unchamfered ceiling beams supported by wooden corbels on braces. A first-floor room above the cross-wing has a fireplace with a moulded bressummer. Within the roof of the cross-wing, there is reportedly a date of 1647 and the arms of the Earls of Arundel.