Manor Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Melton local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1979. House, farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Manor Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- rough-groin-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Melton
- Constituency
- Melton and Syston MP: Edward Argar (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1979
- Type
- House, farmhouse
- Address
- Manor Farmhouse, 35, Main Street, Ab Kettleby, LE14 4SZ
- OS grid reference
- SK 736 236
- Coordinates
- 52.80535, -0.90869
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor Farmhouse is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from the mid to late 17th century. It was extended in the late 18th to early 19th century and underwent further extensions and alterations in the late 19th century. The building is constructed of coursed squared ironstone and red brick in irregular, chiefly stretcher bond, with slate roofs and brick ridge and lateral stacks.
The house has an L-shaped plan and is two to three storeys high, featuring a six-window range. The projecting cross wing to the left has three storeys, with a canted bay window on the ground floor, a wood mullion and transom window on the first floor, and a two-light casement window on the second floor, all with stone lintels. To the right of the cross wing, there is a three-storey gabled porch or stair turret in the re-entrant angle, which has a 19th-century door with ornamental hinges, an overlight, and a stone lintel with a hood mould. This turret also features one-light casements on the first and second floors, both with stone lintels.
The two-storey, four-window brick range to the right has wood mullion and transom windows on the ground floor with flat-arched brick lintels. The first floor, which is an addition, has two-light casements with segmental-arched brick lintels. The rear wall of this range is made of coursed squared ironstone and includes a stone surround of a former two-light stone mullion window, now replaced with a 20th-century window, and features a hood mould. The cross wing has been extended or partly rebuilt in brick at the rear. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Manor Farmhouse 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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