Manor House

This is a Cotswold manor house, largely dating to the early 17th century, although it may incorporate fabric from an earlier period. A larger, matching extension was added in 1913. The house is constructed of coursed and dressed rubble, with Cotswold stone roofs and four principal groups of diagonally set chimneys. It has an L-shaped plan and is two-and-a-half to three-and-a-half storeys high due to the slope of the land. The parapets are coped with finials, and there are gargoyle-like chutes directing rainwater into lead pipes. The house has a four-by-three bay gabled layout on its southwest and southeast fronts. The southwest front features a rhythm of subsidiary gables, creating an a,b,a,b,a,a pattern, with the small gable over the porch repeated in the 1913 extension to the left. String courses run over each floor, raised over the windows. The windows are mullioned and transomed, with two, three, and four lights, with mullions only in the attic windows. A former hall window has four lights, with further blocked outer lights. A two-storey ashlar porch is located three bays in from the right. It has an arched doorway with a keystone and imposts, flanked by Doric pilasters supporting Ionic pilasters to an upper room. A lugged architrave frames the window of the upper room, which has been opened into the frieze. An armorial cartouche sits above the doorway, and a sunburst motif is in the panel of the parapet. A Tudor ashlar window with panelled spandrels is also present. The northeast front is characterized by massive chimney breasts, which divide over round arches of two orders to the basement. The left-hand chimney includes a corbelled latrine. A remarkable feature of the interior is the vaulted room in the basement, seemingly of early 15th-century style with flat ribs and stumpy colonettes attached to the walls. Its purpose is unclear; it is accessed through pointed doorways at each end, one leading to the kitchen. The basement is reached by a stone staircase incorporating reset Jacobean balusters from the upper end of the hall. The hall itself has a good contemporary fireplace, of relatively simple design.