The Manor House is a Grade II* listed building in the South Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1967. A Post-Medieval House.

The Manor House

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Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
South Cambridgeshire
Constituency
South Cambridgeshire MP: Pippa Heylings (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 November 1967
Type
House
Period
Post-Medieval
Address
The Manor House, Kingston Road, Great Eversden
OS grid reference
TL 359 537
Coordinates
52.16539, -0.01321
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Manor House is a building dating from around 1600, with extensions made in the 18th century. It features a timber frame that is plaster rendered, and has tiled roofs with two ridge stacks, one of which is shafted. The house is designed in an H-plan, with a parallel range of 17th-century outbuildings at the rear that were linked to the main house in the 18th century. It stands two storeys high, with the central block displaying a low parapet and a modillion cornice that returns to the wings. The front facade has a window arrangement of two, three, and two double-hung sashes, each with a single central vertical glazing bar. The central doorway is framed by a shouldered doorcase. The rear range is also timber framed, rendered, and tiled, with an 18th-century stair house that is framed and rendered, and features a Palladian window in the west wall.

Inside, the house contains 18th-century details, including a paved hall with black setts at the corners and a stair house that connects the front and rear ranges. The open-string staircase is accessed through a screen with an elliptical arch, supported by panelled pilasters and a raised keyblock. The staircase has three flights, with a moulded and swept rail, column-on-vase balusters, scrolled tread ends, and a curtail. There is a raised and fielded panelled dado, and the ceiling of the stair hall features 18th-century plasterwork, including a cornice with egg and dart moulding and a circular main panel adorned with acanthus leaves radiating from a lamp hook. Additional 18th-century details include fielded panelling in a ground floor room, a Palladian window in the west front, and two fireplaces in the north end rooms that have moulded surrounds and panelled overmantels with cornices. The Manor House is situated on a moated site.

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 97% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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