Manor Farmhouse, Gatepiers And Abutting Walls Enclosing Forecourt

Manor Farmhouse, together with its gatepiers and the walls enclosing the forecourt, is a farmhouse dating to the early 16th century. A west wing was added in the 17th century, followed by a stable wing and internal alterations in the 18th century. Further internal alterations occurred in the early 19th century, and the casements were renewed in the late 20th century.

The farmhouse is constructed of red sandstone rubble, partially rendered, with a bitumen-covered slate roof and corrugated iron on the east side of the east wing. Stone stacks mark the end of the original building to the right, to the left of the porch, and at the left gable end, although this is obscured by a wing. The U-plan farmhouse faces roughly south, with a main block arranged in an L-shape; the lower end contains a room at the rear, a hall, and an inner room to the left of the porch, which is divided by stud and plank screens. A C20 door has been inserted into the facade to access a small room created by these screens. The east wing comprises a two-cell and cross passage arrangement, and the west wing contains stables linked to the main house by an earlier addition. The forecourt is enclosed by a wall with gatepiers.

The two-storey, 2:1:1:1 bay main block has a cruciform window on the first floor to the left, and a four-light window flanked by a full-height gabled porch. A three-light casement sits to the right of the end stack. The ground floor has an inserted C20 door to the left, C20 casements beneath concrete lintels flanking the porch, and a C20 door to the right of the end stack. The porch is adorned with slates cut into the shapes of playing card suits and features square-headed, moulded outer and inner doorways, the former with an additional 19th-century moulding.

The west wing has three bays with large, raking buttresses. Square-headed doorways on the rear elevation are lit by wooden mullioned windows. The east wing has a two-window front with a central door. A 17th-century four-light ovolo moulded window is positioned to the right on both the upper and lower floors.

The farmhouse interior reportedly shows evidence of a largely 19th-century rebuilding of the lower end, with a hall and parlour featuring moulding beams. There’s a lintel to the hall fireplace, and evidence of stud and panel partitions forming the small room between. A stair turret originally opened out of the hall. The farmhouse contains four pairs of jointed cruck trusses, with a fifth concealed within the partition of the small room. The west wing interior retains extensive remains of two stud and panel screens to the cross passage, along with chamfered beams displaying scroll stops; scroll stops are also present on the doorway lintel and to the chamfers on the screen. Evidence suggests that a stair once rose beside the fireplace, and remains of a jointed cruck roof are visible.

The early 18th-century gate piers are constructed of red brick with a moulded plinth, a cement cap, and a ball finial. The random rubble wall, swept down with brick coping, returns to the wings.