Manor Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1968. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Manor Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- knotted-passage-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1968
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Manor Farmhouse, Edgton, SY7 8HN
- OS grid reference
- SO 386 857
- Coordinates
- 52.46616, -2.90512
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the late 17th century, possibly incorporating parts of an earlier building. It was extended in the late 18th century, with later additions and alterations. The structure is built of uncoursed limestone rubble with occasional red brick dressings and painted brick, likely replacing a timber frame, particularly visible on the gable end of the north range. The roof is covered with plain tiles. The building has a T-plan, with the earliest part being the north range, which appears to have three bays. The eastern and western ranges are later additions from the 18th century, as indicated by the straight joints on the long south side. There are 19th-century rubblestone lean-tos on both the east and west sides of the north range. The farmhouse is two storeys high with a cellar beneath the north range.
On the north side of the west range, there is a 19th-century casement window to the left and a 20th-century casement window to the right on the first floor, with a 20th-century casement in a 19th-century segmental-headed opening to the right on the ground floor. The north range features 20th-century casements on each floor at the gable end and has a prominent stepped external lateral stack with a truncated and infilled bread oven at the angle with the west wing. The entrance is to the left through a 17th-century plank door under a concrete lean-to, which continues the rubblestone lean-to. There are integral end stacks with red brick shafts on the east and west ranges, and a red brick ridge stack on the north range.
Inside, the farmhouse has several deep-chamfered ceiling beams in the ground-floor rooms. The south room of the north range has a stone-flag floor and an inglenook fireplace with a 19th-century moulded wooden mantel-shelf. There is also an inglenook fireplace in the external lateral stack. A straight-flight oak staircase with turned balusters, some of which have been replaced, turns on a half-landing to each range. Throughout the building, there are several 17th and 18th-century plank doors. The collar and tie beam roof trusses are partly exposed in the north range, and there is a doorway with a shaped lintel cut through the tie beam of the first truss from the south.
Local climate
Manor Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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