The Manor

The Manor is a manor house dating back to the 15th century, with additions and alterations in the 16th and 17th centuries and some 19th and 20th century modifications. It has been converted into flats. Originally built for Walter Mitchell, the house is composed of a main manor house, an attached chapel wing, and a detached kitchen block to the rear, connected by a covered walk.

The manor house is constructed of random rubble, rendered in places, with triple Roman tile roofs, hipped to the west of the hall range, featuring coped verges with bases for finials. Brick stacks are present, including a projecting rubble stack to the rear with a brick cap and a crenellated octagonal dressed stone stack. It follows a cross passage plan, originally with an open hall later floored. Wings were added at right angles to the east and west ends, with the chapel wing situated to the rear and a kitchen wing extending from the rear. The irregular front facade is of two storeys, with a 1:1:1:1:1 bay arrangement. It includes two 3 and 4-light moulded stone mullioned windows and three narrow slits. A projecting gabled wing is located on the left, and there are door openings in chamfered stone 4-centred arch surrounds. The principal entrance is through a gabled porch, with a moulded 4-centred arch outer door opening, stopped label, and blank shields to the spandrels. A 2-light window is above the door, and a C19 door is now in place. Returns on the building are in a similar style. The chapel wing has a large 5-light mullioned window in the ground floor of the west gable wall, with a corresponding 4-light window on the first floor. The east wall has a 3-light window, each light with a cusped head. The upper floor of the chapel wing is connected to the upper floor of the kitchen wing by a short elevated passageway supported by narrow 4-centred archways on either side. The kitchen wing exhibits a 2-light mullioned and transomed window on the west end, each light with a cusped head, and some iron stanchions remain. A covered walk connects the rear of the cross passage to the kitchen wing, the roof supported on jointed crucks with a cambered collar. The roofs of the east cross wing of the house, the chapel wing and the kitchen wing are of cruck construction and retain some arch bracing.

Notable interior features include remains of a 17th century strapwork plaster ceiling in the first floor of the chapel, a piscina within the chapel, and a fireplace in a massive stone surround with a chamfered 4-centred arch opening to the east ground floor room of the house.