Heath Manor is a Grade II* listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1952. A C16 Manor. 1 related planning application.
Heath Manor
- WRENN ID
- winding-chimney-elm
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Constituency
- Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard MP: Alex Mayer (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1952
- Type
- Manor
- Address
- Heath Manor, Leighton Road, Heath and Reach, LU7 0AA
- OS grid reference
- SP 925 276
- Coordinates
- 51.94011, -0.65541
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Heath Manor is a late 16th century or early 17th century building that was altered in the early 18th century, with slight changes in the 19th century. The entrance front is made of red brick and features a hipped old tile roof with modern dormers. The manor has two storeys and attics, with five sash windows; the ground floor windows have flat arches, while the first floor windows were rendered in the 19th century. The central entrance has a six-panel door and a porch supported by modern pillars, topped with a modillion cornice hood, rusticated pilasters, and an entablature that includes triglyphs and mutules. The building has ashlar quoins.
On the garden front, there is a right-hand projection with a Dutch gable that contains a stone door surround featuring a semi-circular arch with a keystone and archivolt, flanked by Roman Doric half-columns. The entablature above has a pulvinated frieze and a cyma recta cornice that is broken forward over the columns, topped with a pediment. A restored chimney stack features carved stone panels.
Inside, the hall has fielded ovolo panelling, and the kitchen includes a timber four-centred bressumer over the fireplace, which has a carved frieze and spandrels. The staircase, dating from around 1640, has a close string with carved newels and turned balusters. Other rooms feature oak panelling and four-centred fireplace arches. The manor was owned by H Brandreth around 1666.
Local climate
Heath Manor sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2001
- 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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