Manor Inn

The Manor Inn is a house dating back to around 1500, with alterations from the 17th century and additions from the 19th century. It is constructed of stone rubble and cob walls, with some sections rendered, and has a hipped thatched roof. There are brick axial stacks, a projecting rubble stack at the front, a rendered lateral stack at the rear, and a stone rubble stack at the gable end of a rear wing. Originally, the house had a 3-room-and-through-passage plan, with the lower end to the left and an open hall featuring a central hearth. The form of the lower and higher ends is unclear due to roof replacements. The sequence of flooring is uncertain, but the hall was likely ceiled in the early 17th century and a front lateral stack added at that time. In the 18th century, outbuildings were added to each end of the house, and a single-storey rear wing was constructed behind the hall in the 19th century. Modernization in the 20th century removed the hall side partition from the passage and subdivided the lower room, along with the conversion of outbuildings. The front of the house has an asymmetrical 5-window facade with late 20th-century small-paned 2-light casements. A lateral stack projects to the left, with an adjoining bread oven and a lean-to porch with a catslide roof, which extends over a 20th-century plank door. Another 20th-century plank door is located to the right of centre. Lean-tos are set back on both ends. The rear elevation features a single-storey wing projecting to the left of centre, with a passage doorway to its right. Inside, the hall fireplace has a high wooden lintel with thin chamfer and straight cut stops. There are narrowly spaced, roughly chamfered, thin beams. The inner room has a smaller fireplace with a convex-stop chamfered wooden lintel. Two original side-pegged jointed cruck roof trusses survive, along with another of uncertain form, enclosed by a partition. All the roof timbers are smoke-blackened, with diagonal ridge and threaded purlins. The truss at the lower end of the hall has a morticed cranked collar with studs morticed into its soffit for an early partition. Pegged roofs are present from the 18th century over the lower and higher ends, with an 18th or 19th-century roof placed over the original roof of the hall.