The Manor House

The Manor House is a manor house with origins in the 13th century, significantly altered in the 16th century, and further developed in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is located on Orlingbury Road, Great Harrowden. The house is constructed of regular coursed and squared coursed ironstone, with Collyweston and Welsh slate roofs. Originally planned around a three-unit layout with a lobby-entry, the house has since been extended into an L-shape and is now double-depth. It is two storeys high with an attic.

The entrance front has a four-window range. A three-storey porch projects to the left, featuring an arch-headed opening with a moulded pendant keyblock. The door within, dated 1648/RAC/WT, is ribbed and studded with a semi-circular fielded panel. A plank door sits to the right, beneath a wooden lintel. The first-floor windows on the far left and right are three-light stone mullioned windows; the others are 19th-century three-light casements and a 19th-century sash window set within a 18th-century opening. An ashlar gable parapet is present, with kneelers and a finial to the right, and a hipped roof to the left. An ashlar stack, with a moulded cornice, rises from the ridge. A single-storey outhouse is attached to the right.

The garden front, to the left of the entrance front, has a five-window range of 19th-century sash windows set in 18th-century openings, each with stone lintels and keyblocks. A central first-floor opening is arch-headed and a similar ground-floor opening is blank. An eaves parapet and a hipped roof complete the garden facade. The rear elevation, to the left of the garden front, features a 17th-century gable with a 19th-century two-bay addition attached. A four-light stone-mullioned window is visible on the side elevation to the right of the entrance front.

Inside, an entrance passage cuts through the central stack, leading to an inner hall with an 18th-century staircase featuring two turned balusters per tread. A six-panelled door is also present. The dining room to the left of the entrance has 17th-century panelling and remains of an open fireplace with a bressumer. The kitchen to the right of the entrance has similar remains of an open fireplace and a moulded spine beam. The lounge, at the rear of the hall, contains early 17th-century panelling reputedly reset in 1648, along with a 17th-century open fireplace with moulded wood and stone surrounds and an armorial fireback. An 18th-century alcove is located to the right of the fireplace. Both the dining room and lounge display evidence of 17th-century stud holes in the ceiling beams. A back staircase is a 17th-century winder with two 3-light stone-mullioned windows, now internal. The first floor contains rooms with 18th-century panelling and fireplace surrounds, one featuring Delft tiles. The porch room has fragments of 17th-century panelling, while two rooms to the right of the porch room feature 17th-century panelling and plank and muntin screens with matching doors. The attic staircase has a 17th-century turned balustrade. The roof structure incorporates trenched purls with original trusses. 18th-century features likely date from remodelling between 1715 and 1720. Evidence suggests the existence of an underground passage leading to the Church of All Saints.