Mounting Block at Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1986. Mounting block.
Mounting Block at Manor House
- WRENN ID
- eternal-rubble-marsh
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Harborough
- Constituency
- Harborough, Oadby and Wigston MP: Neil O'Brien (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1986
- Type
- Mounting block
- Address
- Mounting Block at Manor House, Main Street, Illston on the Hill
- OS grid reference
- SP 705 991
- Coordinates
- 52.58578, -0.95986
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The mounting block at Manor House is an 18th-century structure made of red brick and stone. It features a brick base with four wedge-shaped stone steps that rise in a spiral to a top rectangular stone step or block. The outer edge of the steps and the wall below are curved.
Local climate
Mounting Block at 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 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% 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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