The Manor is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1982. Manor house. 2 related planning applications.
The Manor
- WRENN ID
- ruined-wall-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1982
- Type
- Manor house
- Address
- The Manor, Thicket Road, Houghton and Wyton, PE28 2BQ
- OS grid reference
- TL 283 721
- Coordinates
- 52.33235, -0.11814
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Manor is a two-storey building located on Thicket Road in Houghton, dated 1905 as noted on the rainwater head. It was designed by Reverend Oliphant in the Vernacular Revival style. The building is constructed of red brick and has plain tile roofs, featuring a moulded brick cornice, stone-capped parapets, and gable facades adorned with finials. A central, flat-roofed, projecting two-storey porch has rusticated quoins and a flat canopy over panelled double doors with intricate ironwork. To the right, there is a side stack with polygonal, moulded brick shafts. The windows are casement style at both floor levels, with stone, ovolo-moulded mullions and transoms set in flat gauged brick arches with key blocks. The interior is rich in detail, featuring a galleried hall, large inglenook hearths, and varying floor levels. Locally forged iron fittings are present on the windows and doors. Reverend F J Kingsley-Backenbury Oliphant served as the Rector of Houghton from 1901 to 1930, as recorded in the Huntingdon Record Office.
Local climate
The Manor 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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