Manor Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1966. House. 2 related planning applications.

Manor Farmhouse

WRENN ID
long-gravel-nettle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Harborough
Constituency
Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 December 1966
Type
House
Address
Manor Farmhouse, Main Street, Owston and Newbold, LE15 8DH
OS grid reference
SK 775 078
Coordinates
52.66325, -0.85489
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Manor Farmhouse is a house from the early 18th century, with a possible earlier section included in the range of outbuildings to the right. It is constructed of squared and finely coursed ironstone rubble, featuring white ashlar dressings, and has a new roof. The building is two storeys high with attics and has three bays. The symmetrical facade includes a central six-panelled door beneath a small canopy supported by console brackets. On either side of the door are larger stones resembling quoins from a former opening, which may be purely decorative. Flanking the door are 20-light sash windows, and the three upper windows are also 20-light sashes, all set within a random area of white ashlar. The roof features three gabled dormers and gable-end stone stacks.

To the right, there is a single bay of lesser height, made of ironstone rubble with a brick rear on an ironstone plinth. This bay has a single 3-light horizontally sliding sash window with an ornately stopped chamfered lintel on its front elevation, and a shallow brick arch at ground floor level, possibly serving as a relieving arch or cellar light. The rear elevation of the main range has outer hipped gables with a 12-light sash window on each floor, while the central section features a large early 19th-century canted bay window in ashlar with 12-light sashes.

To the north of the house, there is a projecting wing that may be part of an earlier building. This section has ironstone on the ground floor, heightened in brick above, and a new roof with a stone-coped gable and finial. Its east wall contains a 3-light horizontally sliding sash window with an ornate stop to the chamfered lintel, a small single light window that may be a fire window, a steeply brick-arched doorway, and another small light to the right. Inside, a massive inglenook with a stone hood on a timber bressumer suggests that this building may have been a former detached kitchen.

Local climate

Manor Farmhouse 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 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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