The Manor

The Manor is a large house dating back to the 16th century, with an extension built in 1614, and a later extension added in the late 18th or 19th century. The original core of the house has close-studded timber framing with rendered infill, with some decorative curved studding near the top of the left-hand gable. Some sections of the exterior are clad in coursed squared limestone, while the gable end of the later extension has been partially repaired with brick. The roof is covered in concrete tiles, and there are ashlar and brick stacks.

The house is basically rectangular with extensions projecting at right angles to the rear. It has two storeys and an attic, with a jettied first floor. At the front, a doorway is set back to the right, with a lean-to to the left. A jettied gable projects prominently to the far left, featuring a 5-light casement with a transom on the first floor, and three similar 4 and 5-light casements. The ground floor has three, four and five-light casements, one with a transom. There is a protective fascia board with a raised chevron pattern covering the ends of the projecting floor joists of the two right-hand bays, and a similar fascia board has been reused to decorate a gutter on the rear extension.

The entrance has a flat, moulded 'Tudor' arched surround with enriched spandrels. The early studded plank door has fillets within the surround, matching the outer entrance and featuring ogee stops. A twin-gabled, 2½-storey extension, dated 1614, juts out from the rear, containing a 6-light stone-mullioned casement on the ground floor, two 3-light stone-mullioned casements on the first floor, and a similar 2-light casement to the gables. All windows have stopped hoods and ovolo-moulded mullions. Part-glazed double doors are located lower right, within a segmental-headed stone surround bearing the initials ‘T.G.’ in the spandrels.

A later 18th or 19th-century extension projects to the right, with stone steps leading to a former doorway for the loft, which is now blocked with a window. The gables of the 1614 extension have moulded coping and kneelers. There is a triple stack off the ridge of the main body at the rear, along with gable-end and axial stacks elsewhere.

Inside, the front right-hand room is panelled, with raised muntins and stiles (restored). A small 20th-century stone fireplace has the initials ‘R.G.’ in the spandrels, positioned in front of an earlier fireplace also bearing those initials. This earlier fireplace is topped with a carved double dragon motif. The interior also features intersecting beams with deep, flat chamfers. A limited inspection of the interior was possible.