Mannin House

Detached five-bay two-storey farmhouse, extant 1720, on a symmetrical plan. Occupied, 1901; 1911. Occupied, 1944. Now disused. Pitched slate roof on collared timber construction with roll moulded clay or terracotta ridge tiles, lichen-covered concrete or rendered coping to gables with rendered chimney stacks to apexes having stringcourses below lichen-covered capping, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves with downpipes now missing. Part creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast battered walls with rusticated rendered piers to ends. Segmental-headed central door opening approached by flight of four overgrown cut-limestone steps, drag edged dragged cut-limestone block-and-start surround centred on keystone with timber panelled double doors now boarded up behind wrought iron double gates. Square-headed window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills, and rendered "bas-relief" surrounds framing concrete block infill (ground floor) or timber boarded one-over-one timber sash windows having part exposed sash boxes (first floor). Interior including (ground floor): central hall retaining carved timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors, timber boarded staircase with timber balusters supporting timber banister terminating in chamfered timber newels, carved timber surrounds to door openings to landing framing timber boarded doors, and timber boarded ceiling; drawing room (west) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door, unhinged timber panelled shutters to window openings, and timber boarded ceiling; parlour (east) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door, unhinged timber panelled shutters to window openings, and timber boarded ceiling; (first floor) bedroom (east) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber boarded door with carved timber surrounds to window openings, chimneypiece, and timber boarded vaulted ceiling; partitioned bedroom (west) retaining carved timber surround to door opening framing timber panelled door with carved timber surrounds to window openings, chimneypiece, and timber boarded vaulted ceiling. Set in unkempt grounds with overgrown piers to perimeter supporting wrought iron "farm gate".