Number 15a (The Manor House ), Number 19 (Three Willows) and Numbers 15 and 17 is a Grade II* listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1951. A C15 Manor house.
Number 15a (The Manor House ), Number 19 (Three Willows) and Numbers 15 and 17
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1951
- Type
- Manor house
- Address
- Number 15a (The Manor House ), Number 19 (Three Willows) and Numbers 15 and 17, Church Street, Buckden
- OS grid reference
- TL 193 676
- Coordinates
- 52.2936, -0.25215
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 15A (The Manor House), Number 19 (Three Willows), and Numbers 15 and 17 form a complex of buildings with origins in the late 15th century. The original structure ran parallel to the street and may have served as a guildhall or similar public building. Early room divisions indicate two upper halls, while the ground floor originally comprised four units with wide openings suggesting windows on the jettied south side. The roof features plain crown-posts with braced collars and splayed edge-halved scarf joints to the wall plates.
In the early 17th century, the building was converted into the kitchen wing of a manor house, with the addition of a timber-framed and plastered range at a right angle to the south side, incorporating two gabled stair-turrets. To the east, a timber-framed barn was constructed, complete with a cartway leading into a courtyard. Further barn additions were made in the 18th and 19th centuries. The entire complex has been recently converted into four separate dwellings.
The building presents a mixed street facade, with the original barn to the east and the guildhall to the west. It is two storeys in height. The exterior materials include weatherboarding, modern brick, plastered timber framing, and painted 18th-century red brick with a band between floors. The roofs are covered in plain tiles, and the chimneys include a late 16th-century octagonal shaft with a moulded brick cap, and a large stack with grouped diagonal shafts. There are three oak doors and a double doorway leading to the cartway, and nine first-floor windows, including three horizontal sliding sashes. Ground floor windows include a 19th-century hung sash window with glazing bars and smaller single-light windows.
The interior reveals the structure of the early building, with exposed roof, wall, and floor frames. Notable features include fine 17th-century oak panelling and chimney pieces in the 17th-century range (some restored), large inglenook hearths, and a dog-leg, closed string oak staircase with turned balusters.
Local climate
Number 15a (The Manor House ), Number 19 (Three Willows) and Numbers 15 and 17 sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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