Manor House Hotel

The Manor House Hotel is a manor house, dating back to circa 1500, with significant remodelling in the early 17th century and extensions in the 18th century, probably 1751, and the later 20th century. The building is constructed of rendered stone rubble with a hipped slate roof. Brick stacks are located at each end of the front range and one is axial to the rear wing.

The rear wing is the oldest part, originally an open hall with a central hearth, which was later floored, and a stack inserted, around the early 17th century. It may have been a 3-room-and-through-passage house, the lower end of which was remodelled in the 18th century. A datestone of 1751, bearing the initials of Bartholomew and Sarah Prust, was found in an outbuilding, which likely correlates with this phase of building activity. The main block consists of two rooms with a central entrance hall and a stair wing set at an angle to the earlier rear wing, with a 20th-century extension added beyond.

The front of the 18th-century block has a symmetrical 5-window façade with early 19th-century 12-pane hornless sash windows. A possible 18th-century doorcase has Doric columns, a cornice, an entablature and a semi-circular fanlight above a 6-panel door. The rear wing is behind the left-hand end of the front range, with a hipped stair wing in the angle between the two ranges, and a 20th-century extension beyond.

Inside the front range, the right-hand room has an early 19th-century moulded ceiling band with decorative corner flowers, and corresponding pilastered architraves to the windows. An 18th-century open string staircase has turned balusters, column newels, and a wreathed handrail. In the front room of the rear wing are re-used late 17th-century bolection moulded panels applied to the walls, and a contemporary moulded wooden cornice with dentils. The room behind has a good quality intersecting moulded beamed ceiling from the early 17th century. Above this room is an original smoke-blackened roof truss with plastered-over feet, featuring a yoke at the apex, a morticed collar, and threaded purlins. A further 17th-century roof truss with collar halved on with a dovetail lap-joint is also present. Behind this is a thick, full-height wall with signs in the plaster of a barrel ceiling. Another 17th-century roof truss lies beyond. The building displays an interesting development of plan form combined with good quality features, and it occupies a prominent position in the centre of the village.