Manor House Farmhouse

The Manor House Farmhouse is a two-story building with a cellar and attic, dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of rubble with large ashlar quoins, with a Roman tile roof. The building has slender, renewed brick end stacks and one axial stack marking a former building division. The south frontage has a four-window range featuring mostly 19th-century casement windows, some under segmental brick arches or timber lintels, with later alterations. The north frontage has similar glazing. Two early, small single-light windows with painted stone surrounds are positioned above the porch and at a right angle to the main building. The porch has a sloping roof with two pointed ashlar arches leading to a four-panelled door. An earlier doorway with a chamfered pointed arch and broach stops is located nearby but is partially obscured by a cross wing. The churchyard frontage features two casement windows – one fixed with margin lights, one with a timber lintel – and a further small, rectangular blocked opening with a timber lintel.

The original east-west wing, which once contained service rooms on the ground floor, is now undivided, though a chamfer near the fireplace reveals planed-out tenons. A wide open fireplace features a chamfered lintel and a surviving chamfered jamb. A possible former stone newel stair is indicated by a large, surviving chamfered block. The low ceiling has three deeply chamfered cross beams. An adjacent former kitchen extension has a higher ceiling and two chamfered cross beams, along with an altered former open fireplace and a bread oven. The present staircase, possibly situated on the line of a former one, is within the cross wing, outside the original north wall, and leads to an early first-floor doorway above the ground-floor doorway. This doorway has an almost semi-circular arch with an external chamfer, broach stops, and an early wooden door with metal fittings including a drawbar. A later first-floor cross wing has exposed pegged trusses and trenched purlins. The attic roof of the primary building is not visible but is described as having chamfers to the edges of the blades and the lower edge of the collar and purlins, suggesting it was originally open with ceiling beams. The attic is now divided into three rooms, one of which has a timber-framed partition that was formerly lit by a single, trefoil-headed window with a stone lintel, visible from an adjacent attic space in the gable end. The interior of the house was refurbished in the early 19th century to include passages and landings, with contemporary doorcases, window surrounds, and shutters.