Sleaford Manor House (Sleaford)

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The Manor House now divided into several different houses. It originally incorporated not only the older stone-built section but the Georgian extension on the right, now known as Rhodes House after the entrepreneur and explorer Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902) who spent parts of his boyhood there.

The stone sections of the Manor House are mainly seventeenth century, and there are two datestones on the building: "1637" in the courtyard and "1619" over the two storey bay window which faces Northgate. What makes is an unusual building is the extensive re-use of mediaeval materials (chiefly fourteenth century), some of which were almost certainly plundered from Sleaford Castle after it fell into disrepair.