Manor House is a Grade II* listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 January 1968. A C17 House.
Manor House
- WRENN ID
- steep-paling-gilt
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 January 1968
- Type
- House
- Address
- Manor House, Warnaby Road, Ab Kettleby
- OS grid reference
- SK 723 230
- Coordinates
- 52.80054, -0.92834
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Manor House is a house that was originally a manor house and farmhouse, dating from the early 17th century. It was extended in the early 18th century and altered in the 20th century. The building is constructed from ironstone ashlar with limestone dressings and features a slate roof. A brick central ridge stack with six square flues was rebuilt in the 20th century. The house has a cruciform plan and is two storeys high with an attic, comprising a three-window range.
The central porch is full-height and has a round-arched doorway with stop-chamfered jambs, moulded imposts, and a moulded round-arched head. Above the doorway is a two-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion window with a hood mould, and there is a similar, smaller window in the gable above. Another gable is located behind the porch. The main block features an ovolo-moulded stone cross window on the left side of the ground floor and a 20th-century timber cross window on the right side. The first floor has two-light ovolo-moulded stone mullion windows. The building also has a chamfered plinth, a moulded string course at the first floor, and stone-coped gables with kneelers.
At the rear, there is a full-height stair turret that corresponds to the porch, contributing to the cross plan and featuring a stone-coped gable. There is a two-storey brick extension from the 18th century at the rear left, located in the re-entrant angle, which includes a stair turret and three-light casement windows on both the ground and first floors. The ground floor window has a segmental-arched head and a lean-to roof.
Inside, the house has ogee stop-chamfered spine beams and a large fireplace in the kitchen with a cambered, chamfered bressumer. There are stone Tudor-arched fireplaces on the first and attic floors.
Local climate
Manor House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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