Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 October 1966. House. 1 related planning application.

Manor House

WRENN ID
stranded-granite-scarlet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Constituency
Hitchin MP: Alistair Strathern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 October 1966
Type
House
Address
Manor House, Church Road, Meppershall, SG17 5NA
OS grid reference
TL 134 359
Coordinates
52.01002, -0.34882
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Manor House is a house dating from the early 17th century, although much of the upper part was rebuilt after a fire in 1959. It features timber-framed construction, primarily with colourwashed plaster infill, while parts of the ground floor of the cross-wings have been rebuilt in red brick. The roofs are covered with clay tiles, with the main block having a hipped roof. The house is designed in an H-plan and has two storeys, with 20th-century dormers on the roof of the rear elevation.

On the east elevation, there are five gabled sections, with the central one serving as a porch, and the second and fourth gables extending beyond the cross-wings. The windows are casements with leaded lights, comprising three on the ground floor and five on the first floor. The porch gable features a reset pargetting panel adorned with a thistle design. The cross-wings display ornamental curved brace decoration in the upper part, which appears to be mostly recent. The main block has a red brick double ridge stack with a pair of moulded octagonal shafts, while there is a red brick external stack, rebuilt in the 20th century, on the side wall of the left cross-wing. Additionally, there is a single-storey addition that adjoins to the north.

Local climate

Manor House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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