The Manor House

The Manor House is a farmhouse with origins in the late medieval period, followed by alterations in the 17th century, and further modifications in the mid-20th century. It is constructed of rubble, rendered over, with a steeply pitched triple Roman tiled roof and decorative ridge tiles. A lower, independently roofed wing to the right has pantiles. Brick stacks are located at the gable ends of the main block and to the left of a cross passage. The building was originally thought to be an open hall house that was subsequently ceiled to create a three-cell plan with a cross passage, and has an outshot at the rear. Internal alterations occurred in the 20th century. It is two storeys high and has a 4:1 bay arrangement; 20th-century 3-light casement windows without glazing bars are present in the main block, and 2-light casements in the addition. The entrance is in the third bay from the left, featuring a flat-roofed Ionic porch with a moulded cornice, and a 20th-century studded door with a bull's eye window. A raking buttress is situated on the left return, and circular pigeon hole openings are in the right gable end. It is said that the interior contains two rooms to the left of the cross passage, with chamfered axial beams featuring scroll stops, a massive moulded stone lintel above a left gable end fireplace, and chamfered lateral beams in the 17th-century kitchen, which retains remains of a large fireplace with a renewed lintel. Of particular interest is the survival of blackened jointed cruck roof detail, although much of it is concealed beneath the present roof.