Manor Farmhouse

Manor Farmhouse is a late 17th- to early 18th-century farmhouse and cottage adjoining, located in Tatworth and Forton. The main block is constructed of rubble faced with red brick in a header bond, with a rubble and Ham stone plinth on the front facade. It has a dog-tooth brick cornice and a slate roof with coped verges. Brick stacks are visible at the gable ends and on the left side of the through passage, and centrally on the lower, independently roofed cottage wing. The farmhouse follows a three-cell and cross-passage plan with a two-cell cottage, formerly a kitchen and dairy, adjoining.

The main block is two storeys high and four bays wide, featuring flat brick voussoirs to slightly enlarged window openings. These windows contain 20th-century reconstructed stone ovolo-moulded mullions with plate glass, with a three-light window on the first floor and a two-light window over the entrance, and a three-light window on the ground floor. The entrance is in the second bay to the right, leading to a four-panel door with two inserted lights. A cantilevered porch is supported by three brackets. To the right is a two-storey, two-bay section with red brick surrounds to two-light casements without glazing bars. The entrance is centrally located on the left, and is accessed via a gabled porch with a 20th-century plank door. The rear elevation features a catslide roof over a stair turret opening into the hall, with a semi-circular headed two-light leaded casement.

The interior is not documented, but is said to contain a featureless inner room and a small hall with a Ham stone fireplace featuring bead mouldings and a moulded plaster ceiling. A dog-leg staircase has dropped rails and three stall balusters to each rail. The sloping ceiling above the stair has a plaster panel depicting two hearts pierced by an arrow. The kitchen contains a blocked fireplace with a depressed four-centred wooden lintel and bead moulded sides. The roof comprises six tie-beam trusses. The cottage is said to contain unchamfered beams, remains of a bresstiimer fireplace, and an external bread oven.