Manor House

Manor House, dating largely from the 17th century with a 18th-century front and a raised mid-19th-century section, is located on School Street in Woodford Halse. The building is constructed of coursed squared ironstone with limestone dressings, topped with a slate roof and stone end and ridge stacks. It has a central staircase plan and extends over three storeys, with a basement on the right-hand side, which formerly served as a kitchen and dairy. The front facade features a three-window arrangement. A central 4-panel, part-glazed door is approached by two semi-circular steps and sits within an eared stone architrave featuring a keyblock, cornice, and a broken segmental pediment supported by carved console brackets; a lead-flashed urn tops the pediment. A sun-dial dated 1858 is positioned above the doorway, and a circular leaded window, surrounded by moulded stone, is located on the first floor. The ground and first floors have 16-pane sash windows with limestone sills, jambs, and flat-arched heads with keyblocks. The third storey is of less refined masonry and includes two-light casement windows with timber lintels. Quoins are present, and the gables are stone-coped with kneelers. A small, leaded, oval window with a stone surround is in the right-hand gable. The left-hand gable end features a small, rectangular first-floor window with a hood mould near the front angle. The rear elevation includes a single-storey 20th-century brick extension, a mullion and transom leaded window with a hood mould in the middle of the first floor, other one- and two-light mullion windows with hood moulds, and a 12-pane sash window with a wooden lintel to the first floor on the left. The interior contains stop-chamfered spine beams and an open fireplace.