The Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1960. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Manor House
- WRENN ID
- night-chancel-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire MP: Helen Morgan (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1960
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Manor House, High Street, Grinshill, SY4 3BL
- OS grid reference
- SJ 520 234
- Coordinates
- 52.80633, -2.71286
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Manor House is a house that was later used as a vicarage. It dates from the early to mid-17th century, with a mid-to-late 19th-century addition and possibly some 20th-century alterations. The building is constructed of dressed grey Grinshill sandstone, with some areas cement rendered to resemble ashlar, and features timber framing with painted brick nogging on a high dressed sandstone plinth. The roof is covered with plain tiles.
The house has an L-plan layout and is two storeys high, with an attic. It features a chamfered plinth and coped parapeted gables, along with two integral brick end stacks located at the rear of the main block. The front has three windows, which include four-light double-chamfered mullioned and transomed stone windows. There are also two large gables that have two-light double-chamfered mullioned stone attic windows.
A central gabled porch, which is rendered and likely altered in the 20th century, has a two-light wooden casement on the first floor and a ground-floor entrance with a keyed segmental arch, a six-panelled door, and a small window set back behind it. To the left of the first-floor window, there is a painted sundial with a wrought-iron gnomon. A blocked attic window is found on the left-hand return front.
To the left, there is a 19th-century two-storey addition that is set back and has a polygonal end, a hipped roof, a plinth, a coved cornice, a brick stack at the rear, and leaded one-light wooden cross windows with double-chamfered reveals on each floor. The right-hand return front features a two-light double-chamfered mullioned attic window and three-light double-chamfered stone mullioned and transomed windows on the ground and first floors.
At the rear, there is a 20th-century raking dormer and a two-light double-chamfered stone mullioned ground-floor window to the left. The mid-17th-century timber-framed rear wing has a 20th-century lean-to porch in the angle. Although the interior has not been inspected, it is likely to be of interest. The garden wall at the front is dated 1694, which may indicate part of the house's construction date, although Pevsner suggests 1624, which seems more likely.
Local climate
The Manor House receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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 EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2004
- 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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