The Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1966. House. 3 related planning applications.

The Manor House

WRENN ID
far-truss-yew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dacorum
Constituency
Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 November 1966
Type
House
Address
The Manor House, Little Tring Road, Tring Rural, HP23 4NR
OS grid reference
SP 916 129
Coordinates
51.8077, -0.67146
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Manor House is a house that includes an attached barn, both dating from the 16th century. The building features a central chimney and an inserted floor in the hall from the 17th century, along with a low west extension added in the 20th century. The structure has a timber frame on a stucco sill, with painted brick infill on the north side and a painted brick casing at the rear (south). The barn is dark weatherboarded and has a steep old red tile roof.

The house is two storeys tall and six windows long, facing north. It has two structural bays on either side of a narrow chimney bay, with a gabled stair turret to the south of the stack and a 20th-century porch on the south side. There is a single-storey bow-ended hipped extension at the west end, which is beyond a large external west gable chimney. The windows are casement style with lattice leaded glazing.

Inside, the house features an exposed frame with jowled posts, straight braces, and a clasped-purlin roof. The eastern bay contains roughly squared axial joists, while the next bay to the west (east of the chimney) has a squared axial beam and joists. The joists are numbered, chamfered, and have stops, with one axial beam over the hall to the west of the chimney. There is a south side door in a full-height partition at the west end of the hall, leading to a parlour bay that is now used as a kitchen.

The barn has heavy jowled posts, a clasped-purlin roof, and heavy curved inclined queen-posts (without collars) supporting the trusses, along with straight wind braces and a straight butted scarf joint in the wallplate. The house occupies the north end of the barn, with stables located in the south end and a gabled projection to the east.

Local climate

The Manor House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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