Manor House

Manor House

A two-storey house built of rubble stone with close-eaved slate roofs and 19th-century yellow brick chimneys positioned at the left end and on the ridge. The principal front faces east and extends across four window bays.

The upper storey displays four evenly-spaced horned 12-pane sash windows with brick heads and slate sills, likely dating to the 19th century. The ground floor has a more irregular arrangement: a small 12-pane sash with timber lintel (replacing a former door) and a larger 12-pane sash with brick head in the left bay; a broad 20th-century glazed entry in the second bay; and 12-pane sashes with brick heads in the third and fourth bays. The third-bay window shows evidence of a formerly wider opening, and the fourth has part of a brick window head immediately to its right, indicating earlier modifications to this elevation.

The north end features a 12-pane sash to the first floor right and a door (originally a window) with a 9-pane sash above in the north end of a rear outshut. A 20th-century white-painted rendered range has been added to the north end, projecting forward of the east front, with two sash windows to front and double garage doors to rear. The south end is white-painted and windowless except for a 9-pane sash with brick head in the outshut first floor.

The outshut to the rear is an addition, identifiable by a straight joint, with a brick stack at its south end. The single-storey rear west side is white-painted with two windows with brick heads to the left of a door and two 20th-century windows to the right.

Interior Layout and Features

The interior is arranged with a principal room at the south end, a shallower centre room with stair hall behind, and a north end room. The stair hall is partly contained within the rear outshut.

The staircase is a plain single flight along the rear wall of the centre former entrance hall, featuring square balusters and a rail ramped at the top, with square newels. The outshut to the northwest has a slate floor with dairy slate slabs and contains a fielded six-panel door. A lobby to the south of the stair hall has a half-glazed door and overlight. In the west wall is a fine 18th-century fielded-panelled pair of doors with a shaped curved head.

The outshut south-west room is the kitchen, with roll-moulded joists and wrought iron hooks. An 18th-century cupboard to the right of the fireplace has fielded-panelled arch-headed double doors. A fielded-panelled six-panel door provides access.

The front range wall is thick. The south room is accessed via a fielded-panelled six-panel door and features three massive square-cut beams and a deep brick fireplace with an elliptical arch, which appears to be a former kitchen fireplace. An iron door on the right side possibly relates to a bread oven. A 20th-century brick arched fireplace has been inserted within the main fireplace. To the left is a brick round arch to a brick-lined smoke chamber, and to the right of the fireplace is a blocked brick-arched opening. The right window was formerly a door; the left window retains fielded-panelled shutters.

The centre former entrance hall is now incorporated into the room to the north, accessed via a six-panel door of early 19th-century type from the stair hall.

The north end contains fielded-panelled six-panel doors on the west wall and to the right of the north-end fireplace. The west door opens into an understair space with remains of a pale stone floor featuring black diagonal squares at intersections, presumably from an 18th-century stair hall. The north fireplace has a late 18th-century timber chimneypiece with festoons and oval rosettes above, and panelled piers with anthemion motif above intertwined husk ribbons; this was originally placed in a bedroom. To the left of the fireplace is a fine 18th-century shell cupboard with a curved back, radiating ribs in the head descending from a small carved shell, and four curved shelves. Below is a semi-circular arch to a curved-backed recess. The north end room is plain with a fireplace on the south wall.

The staircase has a fielded-panelled two-panel door at the top landing before turning through the thick rear house wall. A corridor behind the bedrooms contains three fielded-panelled six-panel doors, one door with sunk panels, and one 19th-century four-panel door. The roof is not accessible for inspection.