Eastington Manor

Eastington Manor is a manor house, likely dating from the 15th century, with alterations made in the 16th and 17th centuries. It is constructed of coursed squared and dressed limestone with a stone slate roof and ashlar stacks. The building has a rectangular plan, featuring a central 15th-century range and a west wing which may have been added later as a solar. The house has 1½ storeys and 2 storeys and an attic. The garden front has five bays, with a gable at the left cross wing and two gables to the right. A two-light, hollow-chamfered stone-mullioned casement is set towards the apex of the right-hand gable, and a three-light hollow-chamfered stone-mullioned casement is located on the second floor of the far right-hand bay. Most other windows are stone-mullioned with stopped hoods, with one single-light window featuring leaded panes and early window glass. A 20th-century plank door, with fillets and decorative strap hinges, is set within a flat-chamfered, 20th-century basket-headed surround on the cross wing. Blocked pigeon holes are visible towards the apex of the gable at the right of the cross wing. The right-hand gable end was extended forwards in the early 20th century, featuring 20th-century casements with leaded panes. All windows on the north front are 20th-century casements with leaded panes. A single-bay extension breaks forward on the far left with a two-light ovolo-moulded casement. Axial and gable-end stacks are present.

Inside, a room at the west end of the central 15th-century range has a tie beam with hollow-moulded chamfers and beading, along with stepped stops. The joists also feature beaded mouldings. An open fireplace has a bressumer and two inglenook seats. A fireback is attached to the rear wall of the fireplace, decorated with a cartouche featuring three swords at its centre and the date 1687. A spiral staircase is located to the right of the fireplace. The room on the ground floor has a 'T'-shaped arrangement of tie beams with deep flat-chamfers. Another open fireplace has a bressumer beam and a cast iron fireback decorated with two batons, dated and initialled I.T./ 1663 / S.W. The roof of this range is reputed to contain a cruck truss, though this has not been inspected recently. A 17th-century stone fire surround with a bolection moulding is found in a bedroom on the first floor. In the cross wing at the west end, two upper cruck trusses have braced 'V'-shaped collars and two pairs of curved windbraces. Historically, the manor of Eastington was held by St Peter's Abbey, Gloucester, before the Reformation, then by the Crown, and from 1600 by the Dutton family.