The Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1989. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
The Manor House
- WRENN ID
- north-foundation-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire MP: Stuart Anderson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 October 1989
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- The Manor House, Main Road, Highley, WV16 6NG
- OS grid reference
- SO 742 831
- Coordinates
- 52.44564, -2.38048
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Manor House is a farmhouse, later adapted as a house, dating to the mid-to-late 16th century, with a cross wing added in the early 17th century. It is constructed of timber framing with brick infill panels and has gabled plain tile roofs. Brick rear lateral stacks are also present. The building follows a two-unit plan, with the cross wing projecting to the left. It is two storeys high with a two-window front. C20 doors and casement windows are visible. The gable end of the right-hand cross wing features an ovolo-moulded bressummer to the first-floor jetty. A single-storey extension was added to the rear around 1980.
The interior retains exposed timber framing. The original 16th-century range on the left features quartered stop-chamfered beams and joists in the main room, which is divided by a timber-framed partition (with a blocked doorway) from a small service room to the left. The gable wall on the right, formerly an exterior wall, has a moulded bressummer to the first-floor jetty. The roof is a two-bay queen-post roof with a criss-cross pattern to the wattle and daub panels of the off-centre truss. The cross wing to the right also has stop-chamfered beams, though with later jointing to the joists. It has a two-bay collar-truss roof with trenched purlins. Stop-chamfered beams are present on all of the first floor.
Local climate
The Manor House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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 — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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