Chipps Manor

Chipps Manor is a house dated 1733, as indicated by the raised brick above the door, with a late 16th century rear wing. The main block is constructed of brick, featuring a flint and brick rear wall, a hipped old tile roof, and brick chimneys at the back. The building has two storeys and cellars, comprising five bays. The front is made of vitreous header brick, with red brick quoins and window surrounds. It has a plinth, a moulded and gauged first floor band course, a moulded and gauged cornice with alternating dentils and darts, and a moulded brick parapet adorned with stone urns at the corners. The windows are three-pane sash types with gauged brick heads and brick sills supported by brackets with guttae. The central first floor window features a shaped head and apron. The central entrance is a six-panelled door, which has been renewed, set in an architrave frame with a gauged head shaped over the date figures, and a wooden cornice hood resting on carved scroll brackets.

To the left and front of the garden are later flint and brick walls, topped with stone urns on corner piers. The right side of the house has two matching bays of sash windows, with cellar openings below, while the left side displays chequer brick with offset eaves and a later wooden dovecote. The lower wing at the rear has timber framing with brick infill on the upper storey, featuring arched braces on the northwest side. The ground floor has been rebuilt in brick and retains an old tile roof. This wing has two storeys and two bays of barred wooden casements.

Inside, the 1733 block includes contemporary panelling and boxed cornices in the rooms on the ground floor and first floor to the right, with the lower room also featuring a contemporary fireplace and an arched china cupboard with shaped shelves and painted festoons on the half-dome. The central staircase has turned balusters and shaped scrolls on the string. The older wing showcases arched and ogee wind-braces, a queen strut roof, a massive spine beam, and a first floor fireplace with a four-centred arch made of chamfered brick.