Manor House

Manor house, dated 1586, with a mid-19th century addition and internal alterations, restored in 1901. The house is built with roughcast over rubble, with quoins, a chamfered plinth, coped verges, slate roofs, and stone and brick stacks. It is arranged on an E-plan, facing south, with a small 19th-century addition to the west front and a long service wing in the northeast corner. The house is two and a half storeys high and symmetrical on its front elevation. It features ovolo moulded mullions, a gabled central four-storey porch, and kneelers. There are three-light mullioned windows under hood moulds, and gabled three-light dormers flank the porch, with four-light mullioned and transomed windows below, all under hood moulds. Two three-light mullioned and transomed windows are located in the re-entrant angles, and the gable ends have paired lights under a single hood mould.

The entrance is through a semi-circular moulded opening under a stone porch with fluted Ionic columns on low plinths and a dentil moulded cornice. The keystone of the arch displays the date 1586, and above is a square plaque with a scalloped frame containing the coat of arms of George Farewell.

Inside, the house has been extensively altered in the 19th and early-to-mid 20th centuries, retaining few original features. These include a couple of small fireplaces, some plasterwork details in a first-floor room, and the original roof, which is an unusual combination of tie beams and arch-braced rafters. Ribbed plaster ceilings are found in the billiard room, while panelling was imported from the 19th century to one room. There is a mid-20th century plank and muntin screen with a painted arch doorway.

The west front has a single-story, irregularly shaped, top-lit 19th-century addition with three-light Tudor arch headed casements and a 19th-century door. The long east front has two gabled dormers, stone stacks rising between them, and a 17th-century style moulded door. The long north service wing has some early 19th-century leaded iron casements.

Externally, the building is much as it was when originally built, with a fine entrance door and some of the earliest ovolo moulded mullioned windows in the West Country.