The Manor House And Gatepiers

The Manor House is a small square manor house dating from the late 17th century, with various attributions to John Paget around 1700 and Peter Mills, who was involved in the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire around 1680. It is constructed of rubble stone, with coursed and dressed stone on an offset plinth to the south-west, featuring alternating chamfered quoins. The roof is hipped and sprocketted, made of stone slate, with a wooden eaves cornice and a large central stone stack that has a moulded cornice and linked flues. The house has a square range with a lean-to on the south-east side, standing two storeys tall with an attic.

The front elevation facing south-west has five windows, which are 2-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion and transoms fitted with leaded lights. There are four similar windows on the ground floor, along with a central doorcase made of moulded stone, topped with a cornice and a large segmental pediment. The door consists of eight fielded panels, flanked by sidelights and a plain six-light fanlight. The rear elevation features 2-light stone mullion windows and a projecting stair tower with a hipped roof that has 16 storeys. Both the front and rear have one hipped dormer, while the sides have two, each with wooden cornices and bedmoulds, and paired leaded casements.

Inside, the rear staircase is notable for its thick turned balusters and square newel posts. An article in Country Life, Volume 159 by Marcus Binney in 1976 describes the interior, which includes a living room with an exposed beam and Doric pilasters flanking the fireplace, and a mid-18th century fireplace from Clutton House in Kingston-upon-Thames located in the dining room. Most of the original oak or elm floorboards remain, and many upstairs rooms feature panelling in the window reveals and window seats, although the interior was not accessible during the survey in June 1985.

The gate piers are made of ashlar stone, square in shape with an offset plinth at the front, a moulded cornice, and a ball finial on a saddlestone base, standing approximately 2 meters tall. They are attached on each side to a coursed rubble stone wall with flat coping, which connects to the lean-to on the south-east side of the house.