Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1951. Country house. 7 related planning applications.
Manor House
- WRENN ID
- keen-corridor-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston MP: Neil O'Brien (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1951
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Manor House, Wistow, LE8 9FT
- OS grid reference
- SP 639 966
- Coordinates
- 52.56401, -1.05795
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor House is a small country house built in the early 17th century and altered in the 19th century. It features rendered timber framing with brick nogging above a coursed rubble stone ground floor. The roof is made of Swithland slate, with brick and stone ridge and side stacks. The house has an H plan and the front displays four gables. It is 2.5 storeys tall and has five wooden mullion and transom windows with leaded lights: two on the left gable, one each on the centre recessed gables, and a five-light window on the right gable.
On the ground floor, from left to right, there is a painted wooden mullion five-light canted bay window, two two-light wooden mullion and transom windows on either side of a gabled porch with a two-leaved door, and a four-light stone mullion and transom window with a hood mould. The wing attics contain three-light casements with leaded lights, and there is a similar central dormer. The right end has a one-and-a-half storey wing.
The garden front at the rear features two and three-light leaded casements, a five-light canted bay window on the ground floor of each gable, and a one-storey earlier 19th-century brick vestibule spanning the recessed centre. This includes four 15-pane windows and a central French window with an overlight. Inside, there are chamfered beams with curved braces in the cellar and reset 17th-century panelling. The house was partly rebuilt after a fire in the 1830s but is said to retain timber framing behind the render.
Local climate
Manor House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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