The Manor Nursing Home

The Manor Nursing Home is a Gothic Revival building dating from the mid-19th century, constructed of limestone ashlar with plain tile roofs. It is a two-storey building with an L-shaped plan, the main range running north-south and a smaller wing extending eastwards at the south end. Notable is a sympathetic extension on the north end, added around 1975.

The building features flat-headed window openings with lancet lights, many with trefoil heads, and the ground floor windows contain transoms. The west entrance elevation has a 4-light window on the ground floor in the first bay from the north. A stepped buttress separates this bay from the second, which features a 4-light window with a gable above and a 5-light window below – these bays are part of the 1975 extension. The third bay has a 2-light window on both floors, the upper floor window with a small gable. The entrance bay has a gabled porch with diagonal corner buttresses, a pointed arch doorway, and a cusped foil above. A 4-light window is set into the upper floor, its head at eaves level. The fifth bay has a gabled 2-light upper floor window and two single-light windows below. The final bay incorporates a 4-light bay window on the ground floor and a shallower gabled bay window of 3-lights on the upper floor. The steeply pitched roof is punctuated by three tall stacks, two on the front slope and a larger one where the two wings meet.

On the south elevation, the right-hand bay has a pointed arch doorway with a French casement and a 2-light gabled window above. The left-hand bay includes a window of four transomed lights with decorated heads and a pointed tympanum containing the date 1862, accompanied by two 2-light windows to the upper floor.

The east elevation, which faces the churchyard, features a wide gabled bay with a two-storey canted 6-light bay window. Adjacent to this is a circular stair turret with small lancet lights and a conical roof. The next bay is gabled with a 2-light window above a large window with a pointed head, label mould, and decorated tracery. Two plainer bays, part of the modern extension, have 2-light gabled windows in the eaves and plain walling below.

Internally, contemporary fittings include panelled timber ceilings and other joinery items, as well as a spiral stone staircase. The layout has been altered with removable partitioning to accommodate its current use as a nursing home. Only part of the interior was accessible during a recent inspection.