Manor House Ruins and Wall, 70 Metres South East of Whessoe Grange Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Darlington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1952. A C16 Ruins.
Manor House Ruins and Wall, 70 Metres South East of Whessoe Grange Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- plain-gutter-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Darlington
- Constituency
- Darlington MP: Lola McEvoy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1952
- Type
- Ruins
- OS grid reference
- NZ 277 181
- Coordinates
- 54.55745, -1.57292
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Manor House ruins and wall, located 70 metres south-east of Whessoe Grange Farmhouse, are possibly the remains of a 12th-century chapel that was converted into a house in the early to mid-16th century and later transformed into a barn. The structure is built from coursed and squared rubble and is one storey high, with a ruinous upper storey. The west gable end features alternating quoins and has two blocked 2-light, hollow-chamfered mullioned windows on the ground floor, which are filled with hand-made bricks. There is a hollow-chamfered south jamb of a former 2-light window in the ruinous gable. The building is roofless, with a blocked breather and a 20th-century doorway on the south wall. The east opening is partly collapsed, and there is a later west doorway on the north wall. The almost complete east gable end has roughly-shaped, alternating quoins, a partly-blocked doorway, and a later opening above. The gable features shaped footstones, moulded copings, and a ruinous apex.
Inside, the south wall contains a small, off-centre 16th-century stone fireplace with a 4-centred arch, above which is a fragmentary wall painting with scattered crescent shapes. There is also a small, round-headed and deeply-splayed first-floor window to the west. A tall wall, likely from the 16th century, measures approximately 15 metres long and has an off-centre boarded door with a round-arched oak head. It also features a deeply-splayed window to the south and the remains of a brick beehive oven to the north. Lean-to additions at the rear are not of special interest. The site was noted to be derelict and dangerous at the time of the survey.
Local climate
Manor House Ruins and Wall, 70 Metres South East of Whessoe Grange Farmhouse receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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