The Manor

The Manor is a manor house, originally marked as Manor Farmhouse on Ordnance Survey maps. The principal structure dates to the early 17th century with additions and alterations in the mid-to-late 17th century and the 19th century. The house is constructed of coursed squared and dressed limestone, with a concrete tile roof on the front pitch and stone slate at the rear. It has ashlar stacks. The original early 17th-century main body is rectangular, with a projecting gabled porch, and a mid-to-late 17th-century range added to the rear. A two-storey, porch-like projection extends southwards on the rear range. A lean-to projection was added in the 19th century to the north gable end of the mid-to-late 17th-century range. The front facade is symmetrical, featuring three windows over two and a half stories. It has four-light stone-mullioned casement windows with ovolo-moulded mullions and king mullions to the ground floor, and three-light ovolo-moulded casements to the first floor, either side of the porch. A two-light stone-mullioned casement is above the front door. There is a two-light stone-mullioned casement with a stopped hood lighting the porch gable, and Cotswold dormers flank the porch. The windows on the facade were replaced in the 19th century. A continuous dripmould runs between the ground and first floors. The entrance features a 19th-century plank door within a segmental-headed surround with carved spandrels to the porch. The left gable end has two 17th-century two-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned casements, and a 19th-century three-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned casement to the ground floor. A gabled projecting, porch-like extension, lit by two-light ovolo-moulded casements, overlaps the mid-to-late 17th-century range to the left. The mid-to-late 17th-century wing on the left has three-light double-chamfered stone-mullioned casements to the ground and first floors, while the attic has two Cotswold dormers lit by double-chamfered stone-mullioned casements. Similar dormers are on the north front of this range. Internally, there is an open fireplace with a bressumer, a semi-circular curing chamber area to one side of the fireplace, and a flat-chamfered Tudor-arched fireplace.