Eye catcher and estate cottage. 1789. Possibly by John Carr for the Earl Manvers. Dressed stone and brick, with slate roofs. Ashlar dressings. Castellated style. 3 stacks in corner towers. Plinth, moulded string course and eaves, crenellated parapet. 2 storeys, 3 unequal bays. 2 square blocks with round corner towers. Windows are Gothic, Moorish and plain casements. Square windows have projecting architraves. Most windows have hood moulds. Main north front has to left, crenellated screen wall with a hatch. To its right, 2 storey block has to left octagonal corner tower, central square tower and to right, square corner tower. To left, pointed door with hood mould. To right, Gothic casement. Above, to left, unglazed opening. To its right, casement and to right again, Moorish casement. Taller block, to right again, has 4 crenellated 3 storey corner towers with blind crosslets. Central Gothic casement flanked by single Moorish casements. Above, central casement flanked by single Moorish arched openings. West front has central blank pointed opening flanked by single Moorish arched openings, that to right with casement. Above, blank central panel flanked by single Moorish casements. South front has to left, pointed opening with inserted French window. Flanked to left by pointed glazed door with Gothic overlight, and to right by C20 casement. Above, central square casement flanked by single Moorish casements. To right, wall with pointed glazed door with Gothic overlight. Above, a square casement. Projecting lower block to right, has square corner towers, that to west with a casement. Large C20 casement and above, central Moorish casement. Adjoining small boundary wall has chamfered coping. To right again, C19 outbuildings, single storey, 4 bays. To east, 2 pairs of garage doors and to right, square hatch. This building is part of the complete Estate village laid out by Earl Manvers of Thoresby Park 1807-1812. (NCC/js)