Mannings

Mannings is a detached house that dates back to the 15th century and later. It is constructed from roughly cut and squared ham stone, with cob on the rear wall and a timber-framed north gable. The house features a thatched roof with plain gables and brick chimney stacks with traditional baffles. It is a single storey with an attic and consists of four bays. The windows are mostly casement types, with a three-light horizontal bar pattern, a plain casement bay in the first bay, and a four-light window in the third bay, all with timber lintels. Above these, there are windows in swept thatched dormers for each bay. Between the second and third bays, there is a boarded door in a very heavy timber frame, along with timber garage doors in the lower fourth bay, which may be a 19th-century extension and was extensively repaired in the mid-20th century.

The north gable has an upper portion of post and truss frame set behind the main stone base wall, featuring a collar and tie truss with a sub kingpost and vertical struts, with the panels rendered. The south gable has a four-light casement and a small leaded single-light casement in the attic, which may have been reused. At the rear, there is a lean-to along the southern half of the wall, which may date to the 17th century.

Internally, much of the early structure remains intact. The south post and truss frame is visible on the inner wall face, with carved braces between the post and tie beam. There is another post and truss frame and a jointed cruck, as well as a fine smoke hood of generous dimensions inside the smoke bay. One framed partition features wattle and daub, with traces of others present. The building also has chamfered beams with kneeled stops and a brick-lined bread oven. This house was likely a demesne farm and was probably built soon after 1475, following the sale of Stocklinch Magdalene Manor to the Ilchester Almshouse Trust. It is considered to be the most complete of the seven surviving medieval houses in the village.