The Manor House

The Manor House is a former manor house dating from the early 17th century to the mid-17th century, with further alterations and extensions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including work by Norman Jewson. It is constructed of roughly squared limestone with a stone slate roof and stone stacks. The building has an ‘L’ shape, with an early core and a wing added by Norman Jewson on the south-east side, and a single bay extension. There is also a late 19th and early 20th century extension to the left of the original core. The main part of the building is two-and-a-half storeys, originally probably two storeys with a later raised roofline. The front facade features a forward gable with a three-light stone-mullioned casement with a scroll-ended hood on the ground floor, a similar two-light window above, and a two-light casement with a stopped hood in the attic. A section of wall to the left of the forward gable was rebuilt in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and includes a three-light stone-mullioned casement to the ground floor and a similar window above with a gable. A single bay extension, dating to the late 19th and early 20th century, is set back on the left and has a plank door with decorative strap hinges. A trefoil-headed single light, likely reused, is found on the left and a similar window is in the left-hand wall of the original core. A late 19th and early 20th century gable projects forward to the right of the original core. A 20th-century studded oak door is set within a flat-chamfered, slightly pointed surround at the front of a lean-to against the left-hand wall. A carved stone-mullioned bay window is on the ground floor of the forward facing gable. The first floor has a three-light stone-mullioned casement with a stopped hood and a blind trefoil towards the apex of the gable. A two-windowed wing extends to the right, featuring three-light stone-mullioned casements with transoms and stopped hoods on the ground floor, and similar casements without stopped hoods on the first floor. All windows have leaded panes. There are axial, lateral and gable-end stacks, some of which are octagonal. The roof has roll-cross saddles and slightly stepped gable end coping. The interior of the original core features intersecting beams with moulded stops, a fireplace with a 17th-century carved oak overmantel dated and initialled ‘R A A 1640’, featuring two archways carved with dragons and grotesques (likely reused). Tie-beams have deep hollow chamfers and moulded stops. The Norman Jewson wing includes a panelled inner hall at the bottom of the stairs, a sitting room with simple moulded plasterwork margin to two ceiling panels, nine-panel doors, and reused 17th-century carved oak cupboard doors in a passage to the dining room. The dining room has an oval moulded plasterwork margin decorated with fruit and flowers, a decorative cornice with modillion and egg and dart decoration, and panelling almost to ceiling height.