Manor House

The Manor House, dating from around 1550 and altered over time, is constructed of red brick with an old tile roof and features prominent chimney stacks made up of groups of three or four octagonal cut brick shafts. The building is two storeys high with an attic. The rear elevation consists of three bays, accented by pilasters at the corners and a stringcourse at the first-floor level. It has a range of three sash windows framed in raised brickwork with glazing bars. There are three dormers with hipped tiled roofs.

On the garden elevation, the left side features two gables, each with paired windows in stone surrounds that have mullions and leaded lights on the first floor. The ground floor has three-light casements. On the right side, there is a two-storey hall with a bay window, a projecting stepped chimney stack, and a large leaded casement window.

Inside, the hall boasts an elaborate fireplace, and there is also a late 18th-century marble fireplace with coupled columns in another room. Historically, the house was built for Francis, Earl of Huntingdon, and was purchased in 1599 by Chief Justice Coke, who entertained Elizabeth I there in 1601. The house was later home to Lady Cobham, the widow of the first Viscount and a friend of the poet Gray, who described the house in his work "Long Story."