Manor House is a Grade II* listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1967. House.

Manor House

WRENN ID
fading-hall-crag
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Lancaster
Constituency
Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 October 1967
Type
House
Address
Manor House, Low Road, Halton-With-Aughton, LA2 6NB
OS grid reference
SD 503 648
Coordinates
54.07742, -2.7606
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Manor House is a house dating from 1695, as indicated by the inscription '1695 HHE' (Henry and Elizabeth Hadwen) on the door lintel. The first wing, marked 'SHL 1894', is above a first-floor window. The building is constructed of sandstone rubble and features a stone slate roof. It has a T-plan typical of 17th-century houses, with a stair and kitchen located in the rear wing. The house is two storeys high with attics and comprises five bays.

The ground-floor windows have been extensively restored and are set beneath a continuous drip course. To the left of the front door is a canted bay and two-light rebated and chamfered mullioned windows, with a similar window to the right and a three-light window that continues around the corner with three mullioned lights on the right-hand return wall. On the first floor, there are five two-light rebated and chamfered windows with mullions, also under a continuous drip course. The door jambs are moulded and continue around a battlemented lintel. Each gable features two one-light chamfered attic windows and one rebated and chamfered one-light first-floor window, although those in the left-hand gable are blocked. The gable copings have kneelers, and there are gable stacks, with the left-hand stack projecting and having offsets.

The rear of the main block has a two-light mullioned window on each floor. The rear wing faces Low Road and contains a two-light mullioned window on both floors in the 17th-century portion to the left. The eastern extension from 1894 has twin gables, rebated and chamfered mullioned windows, and drip courses. A further extension to the east features a re-set doorway with a chamfer that continues around a battlemented lintel marked 'WR 1659'.

Inside, there is a moulded segmental fireplace opening in the left-hand room. The rear wing has an altered closed string open well stair with square newels and turned balusters. In the rear room of the 17th-century wing, there is a very large segmental arched fireplace with a raised keystone featuring a floral motif. Within this fireplace is a smaller 18th-century stone fireplace with a moulded cornice. Some crucks have been re-used on the roof principals.

Local climate

Manor House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,400 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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