Henley Manor Farmhouse

Henley Manor Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse, largely dating to the early 17th century, although it may contain fragments from the medieval period. The structure is predominantly built of Ham stone, with squared and ashlar dressings, and features Welsh slate roofs with coped gables, set over stone slate base courses to the central block. Ashlar and brick chimney stacks are present. The house is arranged in a “U” shape, with the central portion having a double-roof plan. It rises to three and two stories with attics.

The east elevation, two stories with an attic, is six bays, with bay six being a gabled projection. It incorporates a moulded plinth and string courses. Windows are mostly hollow-chamfered mullioned and transomed, cruciform in design, with rectangular leaded glazing within wave-mould recesses. Bay five features an ovolo-mould 4-center arched doorway, over which sits a 2-light window. A cruciform window is visible on the flank of the bay six gable to the first floor, with signs of a blocked window below. The gable end of this wing has reserve-chamfer mullioned windows with separate labels, of 4-lights to the ground and first floors, and 3-lights to the attic. Some windows on the south gable of this wing are blocked. A 20th-century window has been inserted to the ground floor. The west return includes further cruciform windows, a 20th-century window, and a doorway, which may occupy a former window position.

The central range, oriented east-west, is three stories and four bays, with an irregular fenestration pattern. A straight joint is noticeable between bays one and two. Bays one features three-light hollow-chamfer mullioned windows to the first and second floors, with the ground-floor window adapted to form a doorway. The window above exhibits unworked top mitres and a probable later 17th-century date for this section. Bays two and four have mezzanine windows, one hollow-chamfered with two lights, the other plain chamfered with a single light. Bay three has a 2-light reserve-chamfer mullioned window to the first floor and a C19 open stone porch with a flat roof below a doorway.

The west block, virtually detached, is connected by a two-story high link wall and a simple doorway. A portion of this block may be a 19th-century rebuild. It is two stories high with attics, arranged over three bays. With a plinth and string moulds over both floors, this west block also has hollow-chamfer mullioned windows in chamfered recesses – 5-light to the ground floor, 4-light to the first, and 3-light to the attics, set into plain gables under hoodmoulds. Cambered-arched doorways are placed between the bays. A small, trefoil cusped window is at first-floor level between bays one and two. The south gable and west flank are plain, save for the string courses. Modern alterations include a 20th-century door, a window, a lean-to addition, and a fire escape to the northwest corner.

The interior was not inspected. The courtyard within the house is of interest, featuring a sunken yard with cobbled and stone-paved surfaces, seemingly of early date.