Manor Farmhouse

Manor Farmhouse, originally a large detached manor house and now divided into two houses, likely dates to the late 15th century, with a 16th-century north wing and a south wing built around 1811. The house is timber-framed, brick, and roughcast, with brick chimneys and a clay plain tile roof. It is arranged in an ‘H’ shape, with two storeys, a cellar, and an attic, and incorporates single-storey additions to the north.

The west side features two gables to the left, a recessed central range, and a gable to the right. The left gable has an outshut to its left, with four casements on the gable and a small upper-floor casement in the outshut, along with a timber louvred attic vent. A lias plinth is visible, and a smaller gabled projection to the right likely represents a former entrance porch and contains an upper-floor casement and an attic vent. The central range is said to have close studding, with single casement fenestration. A masonry projection to the right has clay tile coping, and a ridge-mounted brick chimney.

The 19th-century gable end of the south wing is on the right, with the roof lowered to create a two-storey outshut to the left. A six-panel door with a pedimented porch leads into the outshut, above which is a sash window with a stepped voussoir lintel. A projecting brick chimney is on the right. The south elevation is rendered to imitate ashlar, with a moulded cornice to the parapet and a blocking course, displaying a three-window pattern of 12-pane sash windows. The east side has gable ends to the north and south wings, with a 19th-century gable to the left rendered and featuring a ridge-mounted brick chimney. A cellar doorway is visible, with a cambered stone arch, while the central range has single casement fenestration and a six-panel fielded door with a fanlight over, set within moulded timber architraves. A brick gable end to the north wing shows rebuilding after a fire; it has a single ground floor casement and two upper floor casements, all with cambered brick arches. An 18th-century timber-framed, two-storey service addition sits to the right, with brick infill and an opening to a service courtyard.

The north wing reportedly contains moulded beams to the ground floor ceiling, carved timber posts in an upper floor room with a later coved ceiling, and a blocked, cambered arched external upper floor doorway. A 16th-century close-studded south gable end of the central range is visible in the attic. An early 19th-century marble fireplace is found in the south wing. A large part of the original moat survives to the west.

Historically, before the Dissolution, the manor house was a possession of Llanthony Priory, with the Prior recorded as having held court here in 1524, potentially within the north wing.