The Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1959. House.

The Manor House

WRENN ID
solitary-keep-sedge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wychavon
Constituency
West Worcestershire MP: Dame Harriett Baldwin (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 July 1959
Type
House
Address
The Manor House, Back Lane, Beckford
OS grid reference
SO 975 354
Coordinates
52.01781, -2.03694
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Manor House is a house that has been divided into five dwellings. It dates from the early 17th century and has undergone alterations and extensions in the mid-19th century, around 1900, in the 1930s, and in the late 20th century. The building is constructed of coursed and dressed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings. It features a stone tiled roof laid in diminishing courses, with a large rear chimney and a star-shaped brick shaft, as well as a south end stack with three square ashlar shafts.

The house has two storeys and an attic with dormers, arranged in four bays. It has chamfered mullioned windows with leaded casements and hoodmoulds on the two main storeys. The ground floor has three 4-light windows, two of which have central king mullions, while the first floor has four 3-light windows. Above these are four gabled dormers with parapets, gabled finials, and 2-light windows with dripstones. The main entrance, located to the right of the northern bay, features a 20th-century gabled rubble porch with a square-headed archway and 4-light windows on the side elevations. The doorway has a 4-centred arched head, a hoodmould, and a 17th-century studded door with strap hinges.

There is a 1930s addition at the rear of the north end elevation, along with a large two-storey seven-bay wing at the rear of the southern two bays, which dates from the 19th century and has later additions. Inside, the northern bay of the original part retains its 17th-century panelling and a large fireplace. There is also a through-passage, with a doorway opposite the main entrance that features a similar 4-centred arched head and relief decoration in the spandrels.

Local climate

The Manor House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% 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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