Huntercombe Manor

Huntercombe Manor is a 14th-century manor house that has been significantly altered and expanded in the late 17th century, 1717, and again in 1887. The house has plain tile roofs, plaster render, and colourwashed brickwork, with rainwater heads dated 1717. 19th-century additions and alterations are also present.

The north side features an entrance porch. The doorway is framed by an ex situ doorcase with Corinthian columns and a broken pediment. The main east front is plaster-rendered and has two and a half stories, with a parapet and three gables, the central one shaped. There are two-light attic windows. The center of the east front has a large two-story canted bay window with a modillion cornice. The sides have a three-window range with generally cross windows, but the first floor of the bay features glazing-bar sash windows, as do two first-floor windows. A similar arrangement of gables is present at the south end, with a large ground-floor three-sided 19th-century bay window and sash windows above.

Attached to the left is a lower range, generally plaster-rendered but with painted brick at its left end. A recessed gable with a projecting ground-floor bay window marks the site of the original 14th-century hall. To the left of this is a projecting two-gable section with three-sided 19th-century bays, one two-story, the other a porch with an oriel window above. A recessed section with modern infill in the ground floor follows. Further to the left is a 19th-century, painted brick, two-gabled, two-story and attic range, with one plain gable and one shaped gable, various windows, and a two-story three-sided bay window on the left end gable.

The interior includes a 14th-century, two-bay hall with a cambered tie beam and curved braces, featuring later 17th-century doors and reset early 17th-century panelling. There is also an early 17th-century panelled buttery, a dining room with an enriched plaster ceiling and carved overmantel, a south-east room with an octagonal ceiling and a Verrio panel, and an upstairs room in the center of the east front with a chimney piece featuring carved garlands and an oval ceiling painting by Verrio. A staircase dating from circa 1675 rises around an open square well and has twisted balusters, with a round painting by Verrio in the ceiling.

The house was owned by the Evelyn family from 1650 to 1705. The diarist John Evelyn visited the house and garden in 1679 and documented them in his diary.