Manor House

This is a manor house dating from the early to mid 17th century, with significant remodelling in the 18th century and later alterations in the 20th. It is constructed of rendered stone and cob, with a slate roof featuring gabled and hipped ends. The rear of the house has stone rubble lateral stacks with set-offs and a gable-end stack, the latter with later brick shafts.

The original plan consisted of three rooms and a through-passage. The main hall was heated by a fireplace in a lateral stack at the rear, while a large inner room or parlour, to the left, had a gable-end fireplace. The eastern end was likely originally unheated. In the 18th century, the front wall of the higher end was rebuilt forward, a wing was added to the rear of the higher end – with one portion serving as an outbuilding – and a lateral stack was built at the rear of the formerly unheated low end room, which was subsequently subdivided. The front elevation, facing south, is asymmetrical with three windows. The high end of the house features an inscription “M H 1763” under the eaves. The interior of the through-passage has a small hatch in the ceiling and a plank-and-muntin screen with scratch-moulded muntins. A similar screen separates the hall from the parlour, featuring an ovolo-moulded head-beam. The hall contains a deeply chamfered axial beam and a half-beam at the front, both with large hollow step stops. The fireplace has dressed stone jambs, a later cambered stone arch, and window shutters dating to the early 19th century. The parlour is ceiled and also has 18th-century field-panel window shutters. A re-used Tudor arch doorframe is located behind the parlour, leading to a staircase with a stick balustrade and chamfered newels. The 18th-century roof over the main front range has principals halved and crossed at the apex, with halved, lapped and pegged collars. A similarly constructed roof is present in the rear wing.

This house represents an interesting example of a 17th-century house adapted and updated in the 18th century.