Manor Farmhouse

Manor house, now a farmhouse, dating from the late 17th century with alterations from the 18th century, and incorporating earlier 16th-century fabric. The building is constructed of squared coursed ironstone and limestone, with a slate roof and brick stacks. It has a double-depth plan, with two storeys, an attic, and a cellar, arranged over six bays. The doorway in the third bay from the right is framed by moulded stone, featuring a frieze of acanthus leaves and a segmental pediment supported by scroll brackets. It has a 19th-century half-glazed double door and an overlight. Three sash windows with plain stone frames are visible to the left, with a similar window to the right. A sash window in the right bay has a wood lintel and side lights. Sash windows on the first floor also have wood lintels. The roof is hipped, with a stack positioned to the right of the centre. A two-light stone-mullioned window is set into the cellar on the right side. A medieval stone gargoyle shaped like a monkey is located on the left side. The rear elevation is irregularly gabled and includes a doorway in the third bay from the left with a wood lintel and a six-panel door. A 20th-century brick porch covers the two bays on the left side. A blocked two-light stone mullioned window is in the left bay, with a single-light stone-framed window with a square hood, also blocked, in the second bay from the left. A three-light window to the right has wood lintels. The original wood mullions and transom remain, along with an old iron casement. First-floor windows have wood lintels and 20th-century casements. Inside, the kitchen and an adjoining room at the rear feature large moulded spine beams, likely from the early 16th century. Similar beams are found in a first-floor room. A plain stone doorway leads from the hall to the kitchen, alongside a blocked pointed stone arch. Three blocked pointed stone arches, each approximately one metre high, are visible in the wall of a first-floor corridor. A timber stud partition is present in a small room to the right of the hall. The house contains an 18th-century staircase with turned balusters. Cellars are said to have plain stone vaulting. The house was rebuilt by William Plowden, a colonel in King James II’s guards, who later left due to hostility from local residents. By the early 19th century, the house had been reduced in size and modernized.