This small medieval manor house was originally the home of the Lyte family who settled in the area in the 13th century. In the early 16th-century a great hall was added, reached through a 2-storey porch with a fine oriel on the upper floor. There is a ground-floor parlour with a great chamber above, the ceiling of which is decorated with an unusually early example of plasterwork ribs forming a pattern of stars and diamonds. At this time it was the home of the herbalist Henry Lyte, who dedicated his 1578 Niewe Herball to Elizabeth I ‘from my poore house at Lytescarie’. It was later the home of Sir Walter Jenner (son of the famous Victorian physician) who rescued the house after a long period of neglect and decay.