The Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 August 1962. A Medieval Manor house.
The Manor House
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-flint-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Cambridgeshire
- Constituency
- St Neots and Mid Cambridgeshire MP: Ian Sollom (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 August 1962
- Type
- Manor house
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- The Manor House, High Street, Croxton
- OS grid reference
- TL 248 596
- Coordinates
- 52.22135, -0.17307
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Manor House is a manor house dating from the late 15th century or early 16th century. It features exposed timber framing and plaster, with a 17th century red brick plinth and walls. The rear has a 19th century brick casing. The roofs are covered with plain tiles, while the rear elevations have pantiles. The building has one storey and an attic, with hall range and jettied cross wings that are two storeys high. The east cross wing jetty is underbuilt, and the south gable wall and end stack were rebuilt in 17th century red brick. There is a tall 17th century red brick stack to the right of the hall with four diagonal shafts. The entrance has a four-panelled 19th century door located in the cross passage, with three ground floor and four first floor casement windows of various sizes.
Inside, the cross wings have crown-post roofs with slender braces to collar purlins. The side purlin in the roof is smoke blackened, with wide windbraces in each bay of the hall. There is an open truss with deep hollow-chamfered arched braces and a roll-moulded and embattled cornice. The service doors and parlour door feature four-centred arches. The hall has inserted 17th century ceiling beams, and the inglenook hearths have been relined. There are two mullioned windows in the cross wings, along with evidence for original oriel windows.
Local climate
The Manor House 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 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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 0.4°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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