The Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. A C18 House.

The Manor House

WRENN ID
south-brick-reed
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Huntingdonshire
Constituency
North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
The Manor House, Old Great North Road, Water Newton
OS grid reference
TL 108 971
Coordinates
52.56119, -0.36627
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Manor House is a house that was formerly a farmhouse and inn, dating from the early to mid 18th century, with some alterations made in the 19th century. It is built from coursed limestone rubble, featuring freestone and ashlar dressings, and has Collyweston stone slated roofs. The building is two storeys high with attics and has a T-plan layout, including a stair turret at the angle and a single-storey gable end range to the south. The gables have parapets with chamfered copings and moulded corbels, which continue into moulded wooden eaves cornices with modillions.

On the north elevation, there is an ashlar band between the floors and a chamfered plinth. The entrance, which is a 19th-century gabled porch, features a glazed, panelled door and a rectangular fanlight, flanked by bay windows. The first floor has four cross framed windows, and there are three hipped dormer windows with casements. Some 17th-century mullioned windows can be found in the rear elevations, possibly reused from a hall that was demolished around 1730, along with a wooden door jamb that is carved with jewel ornament, also believed to be reused.

Inside, the south wing contains resited 16th or 17th-century panelling with an arabesque frieze, while the north wall has 17th-century panelling. There is a closed string staircase with turned balusters and square newels. The house was known as 'The Farmhouse' when it operated as an inn in 1742.

Local climate

The 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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