The Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1962. House. 3 related planning applications.

The Manor House

WRENN ID
salt-niche-acorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Constituency
Witham MP: Priti Patel (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 June 1962
Type
House
Address
The Manor House, the Street, Pebmarsh, CO9 2NH
OS grid reference
TL 853 334
Coordinates
51.96891, 0.69644
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

The Manor House is a house dating from around 1500, with extensions added in the late 16th century and the 20th century. It features a timber frame, plastered exterior, and a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The main section of the house has two bays facing south, with an axial stack at the left end, and a two-bay crosswing at the right end from the late 16th century, which includes an 18th-century stack in its right return wall. There is a stair tower at the rear of the main block, dating to around 1600, along with a single-storey lean-to extension and a two-storey extension with an internal stack and flat roof at the back of the crosswing.

The house stands two storeys high and features a two-storey splayed bay with 20th-century casements on the crosswing, while the main block has a one-window range of 20th-century casements. The front entrance has a six-panel door with glazed top panels, situated at the front of the 20th-century lean-to porch. Some old pargetting can be seen in the panels on the right return wall. Inside, there are jowled posts and heavy studding with curved braces set inside. The main range has chamfered transverse and axial beams, with plain joists of horizontal section joined to them using unrefined soffit tenons. The rear wall has two unglazed windows, with the upper one featuring three diamond mullions, now both enclosed in the rear extension. The crosswing displays exposed plain joists of horizontal section and a trimmed stair trap that is now blocked. The stair tower retains an original window with two ovolo mullions and some 17th-century leaded glass. The crosswing has its original butt-purlin roof, while the roof of the main range has been rebuilt. The adjacent property to the west, The Post Office, originally served as the service end crosswing of The Manor House before being partitioned off.

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 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 2015
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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