• 6 bedrooms +
• 5 reception rooms +
• 3 bathrooms +
• 8.13 acres +
• 2 bedroom cottage +
• Coach House +
• Outbuildings +
• Detached +
• Garden +

Set in about eight acres of attractive, mature grounds in a shallow valley carrying the River Divelish, The Manor is an historically significant former manor house that can trace its lineage back to the Saxon era. Indeed, it has been the setting for a significant country house for nearly 2,000 years. A substantial, 2nd century Roman villa first stood about 600 yards away closer to the river, which was then replaced by a Saxon manor house where The Manor stands today. The current building dates from the late Tudor period and is built of a mix of local stone and red brick and is partly rendered, sheltering under a Welsh slate roof. The house is Grade II listed and a time capsule of period domestic architecture with examples of late Tudor, early Georgian, Victorian and 1930s interiors. It has an east/west axis with most of the property’s six principal reception rooms and six first floor bedrooms looking out across the parkland-like main lawn to unspoilt countryside beyond. Tall, wide sash windows allow in plenty of natural light and the front and west side of the house features a handsome, colonnaded semi-circular front porch and a two storey loggia overlooking the pretty walled garden.

The interior has a wealth of original architectural fittings. These include a brick-lined inglenook and beams in the snug, fine joinery in the elegant drawing room, dining room, snug and library, a wide, timber front staircase to a galleried landing above, parquet and stone flagged floors and many fine fireplaces. On the first floor the principal bedroom and two further large double bedrooms share the family bathroom, whilst the guest bedroom has its own en suite shower room. In addition, the first floor also incorporates a self-contained flat with two bedrooms, a bathroom and a sitting room. In addition to the ground and first floors the house contains a suite of former staff bedrooms in the attics plus three cellars.

Discretely out of sight behind and to one side of the house are The Manor Cottage, a charming, brick-built cottage with two bedrooms and its own garden along with a Georgian stable block with four loose boxes and a double coach house. The stables and coach house are unaltered from when they were built nearly 300 years ago and present a myriad of uses in the future, subject to obtaining the necessary consents. The cottage is currently let under an Assured Shorthold Tenancy. Immediately beside the house and adjacent to the back entrance are a two storey house, log store, larder, coal store and gardener’s WC plus a walled pen for a house cow! On the far side of the front drive are two, cleverly concealed garden stores.