The Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1987. House.
The Manor House
- WRENN ID
- lost-wattle-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Manor House, 8, Manor Close, Shincliffe
- OS grid reference
- NZ 291 406
- Coordinates
- 54.7603, -1.54789
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Manor House is a house that was originally the right wing of a larger manor, built in the early 18th century with some alterations made in the 19th century. It features narrow, hand-made brick in an irregular English garden wall bond, painted white on the front and pebble-dashed on the rear. The roof is covered with ridged concrete tiles, and there is a rebuilt brick chimney stack. The house has two storeys and three bays, with a double band between the storeys.
On the left side, there is a partly-glazed, six-panel door set in a moulded stone surround that includes a frieze and cornice. The windows are four-pane sashes, although the intermediate glazing bars have been removed, and they are set in 19th-century openings with flush lintels and projecting sills. A projecting course runs along the eaves, and the steeply-pitched roof has a chimney stack at the right end.
At the center rear, there is a two-storey gabled stair-wing that features a twelve-pane sash window with thick glazing bars. An additional two-storey outshut is present, along with a single-storey lean-to extension on the right rear. Inside, one ground-floor room retains early 18th-century panelling, and there are six-panel doors with wood architraves on the ground floor, while the first floor has five-panel doors in panelled reveals. The staircase is a cut-string, open-well design with three flights and a landing rail, featuring two turned balusters per tread and a square-sectioned, ramped and wreathed handrail.
Local climate
The Manor House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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