The Manor House And Attached Walls And Gates

The Manor House is a country house dating to the early 17th century, with alterations and extensions in the 18th century, and further work in the mid-19th century. Sir Edwin Lutyens undertook repairs and created an attic nursery in 1935. It is constructed of coursed squared limestone with old plain-tile roofs, a brick ridge, and lateral and internal stacks. The house has a complex plan and two storeys with an attic, presenting a ten-window front. Gabled cross-wings project from either end and slightly left of centre of the long main range, each featuring shallow, two-storey canted bay windows to their gable ends. These bay windows have tripartite sash windows on both the ground and first floors, topped with stone lintels, keyblocks, and hood moulds. A three-window section of the main range between the left and middle cross-wings has a central gabled stone porch with a moulded Tudor-arched head, hood mould, and a 20th-century door, topped with a carved stone head. Narrow rectangular one-light windows are set into this section of the main range, again with stone lintels. One and two-light casement windows, also with stone lintels, keyblocks, and hood moulds, fill the section between the middle and right cross-wings. The inner right side of the left cross-wing has a blocked window on the ground floor, alongside a three-light leaded casement window on the first floor, both with wood lintels. A 20th-century hipped dormer window sits on the right side of the middle cross-wing. A stack at the left end of the main range has a stone base, with an 18th-century brick plinth to its flue, and all stacks are topped with terracotta chimneypots. The eaves overhang. The garden elevation to the rear mirrors the front, with an irregular arrangement of sash and casement windows. An extension with twin gables and a valley roof fills the space between the middle and rear right cross-wings, at a single-storey height. A 20th-century part-glazed door provides garden access to the left of centre, and a row of tall gabled dormer windows light the nursery behind the extension. Attached walls of coursed limestone rubble, topped with plain-tile slopes and brick coping, enclose a forecourt and a garden to the rear, with timber double-leaf gates. Inside, the house retains ogee stop-chamfered spine beams to the ground and first floors, and ogee-stop-chamfered cross beams within the 17th-century core. A stone fireplace in the hall features a cambered head and keyblock, alongside other 18th-century and early 19th-century stone and marble fireplaces, likely brought in during the 20th century. The main staircase uses 17th-century style turned balusters, likely dating from around 1935, and a fine panelled stair leads to the nursery. A five-light ovolo-moulded wood mullion window, now internal, illuminates a corridor. A stone cellar is also present. The roof of the middle cross-wing and the section of the main range between the middle and right cross-wings contains stop-chamfered principal rafters and wind-braced purlins, seemingly of early 17th-century origin.