Former Manor House is a Grade II* listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1959. A C17 House. 7 related planning applications.
Former Manor House
- WRENN ID
- slow-keep-scarlet
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Wychavon
- Constituency
- Droitwich and Evesham MP: Nigel Huddleston (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1959
- Type
- House
- Address
- Former Manor House, The Manor House, Manor Mews, Manor Grange and Keepers Cottage, Bidford Road, Cleeve Prior, Evesham, WR11 8LQ
- OS grid reference
- SP 088 494
- Coordinates
- 52.14299, -1.87195
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a large manor house dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries, with alterations made around 1950. It was the manor house of the Bushell family from the 16th to the late 17th century. The house is constructed of coursed rubble stone with ashlar dressings, and some timber-framing. It has plain tile roofs with tall chimney stacks, with some renewed brick diagonal shafts set on stone bases. The building is arranged in a 'T' shape, with a long rear range running east-west and a further long range extending south from the centre of the rear range.
The south range features a paired ridge stack and a large external stack on the west wall, built of stone with a brick shaft and a 1709 plaque dedicated to ‘TGB’. The east side of the house has an exceptional early 17th-century two-storey porch constructed of ashlar, featuring a moulded arched doorway, paired mullion and transom windows, and a shallow, shouldered gable. Decorative elements include panelled spandrels with two roundel busts (one broken), an entablature with shallow relief masks in the frieze, and carved small brackets supporting the gable. In a panel above the windows is the carved motto 'Dwe ette mwne droit'. The gable is topped with a winged boy and ball finials. To the left and right of the porch are three-window ranges, with one wooden cross window and mostly 20th-century replacements with mullioned windows above and mullion and transom windows below. The west side has, to the left of the stack, a 16th-century timber-framed section with a two-window range, and a gabled stair projection to the rear range. To the right of the stack is a three-window range with stone and wooden cross-windows flanking single casements with top-lights, some of which have been renewed.
The rear range features a large triple stack at the junction with the south range, and two paired ridge stacks. An east section of the rear range contains two mullioned windows, two of which are 20th-century copies, and two originals. The east gable has an original attic window and 20th-century mullioned windows below. To the west of the south range is an irregular two-window section with a dormer and two leaded first-floor casements, along with a 20th-century ground floor door and window. The west gable has 20th-century mullioned windows. At the rear, two windows are visible on the first floor, one with a moulded surround, and one ground floor window with iron octagonal glazing bars. Projecting service wings run to each side, and attached to the northwest corner is a one-and-a-half-storey cottage with two dormers on the east front, three windows, and two doors.
The interior includes a panelled ground floor room, and the hall was altered in the early 18th century, as recorded in the Victoria County History. A 17th-century oak front door also survives.
Local climate
Former Manor House receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 6 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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