Manor Farmhouse

Manor Farmhouse is a house that dates from the late 15th century, with alterations made in the 16th century and later. It now serves as the east (kitchen) wing of an early 19th-century house, likely built on the site of the original solar. The building is constructed of red brick and features a slate roof with end stacks and moulded brick eaves. It stands two storeys high and has three bays of sash windows, with the sides being five panes wide and the centre four panes wide. The windows are topped with gauged brick flat arches.

The central entrance has a semicircular arched doorway with deep reveals and a six-panelled door. The garden front is similar, featuring a flat arched door. The east wing has one full-height oak post at the front and two at the back, with red brick infill and a steeply pitched slate roof that includes a central chimney. There is a wide door to the left leading to a former cross passage, and to the right, there is one bay of three-light casements, with the upper lights leaded and the lower lights having a segmental arch.

Attached to the east end is a 19th-century stable made of yellow brick, with a slate roof and brick eaves that include pigeon holes. Inside the east wing, there is an almost complete 15th-century timber-framed hall consisting of three bays, featuring finely moulded posts (with bases removed), concave moulded capitals that support deep arch-braced scissors trusses, and a moulded wall plate. Traces of a frieze with a quatrefoil pattern have been removed earlier this century. The interior also includes moulded purlins, chamfered curved windbraces, and chamfered rafters, with framing for a smoke louvre in the western bay. A large chimney and ceiling were inserted in the 16th or 17th century.

Historically, the house may have been built by Sir Henry Colet, who was the Lord Mayor of London and the father of Dean Colet of St Paul's Cathedral. He purchased the manor in 1483 or 1484.