Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Hertsmere local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1985. House, community centre. 2 related planning applications.

Manor House

WRENN ID
brooding-oriel-owl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Hertsmere
Constituency
Hertsmere MP: Sir Oliver Dowden (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 February 1985
Type
House, community centre
Address
Manor House, Allum Lane, Elstree and Borehamwood, WD6 3PJ
OS grid reference
TQ 189 963
Coordinates
51.65343, -0.28178
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Manor House, now a community centre, likely has origins from the 17th century, with extensions from the 18th century and a remodel around 1880. It features colourwashed brick and 19th-century dark red brick with stone dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof. The front elevation is two storeys with an attic and consists of a main part with a six-window range, mostly large-paned sashes. There is a small verandah supported by chamfered timber uprights on square stone bases, with curved timber brackets and a Welsh slate roof. The building has two dormers, and the right end is canted, featuring a door, window, and a dormer on the side elevation, which returns to the rear. The left side has a slightly recessed 19th-century frontage with three windows on both the ground and first floors, along with two dormers. Adjacent to this is a two-storey wing in painted brickwork from the 18th century (or possibly earlier), which has two sash windows under segmental arches on the first floor, and a small lean-to in painted brickwork with a single-pitched Welsh slate roof added to the front.

The west side elevation has two 18th-century sash windows on the first floor, with casements below. The roof is M-shaped, hipped, and Welsh slated, featuring a parapet on the front elevation. The rear elevation has two steeply-pitched gables, likely from the 17th century, and an 18th-century six-panel door to the left of centre. Most of the windows are 18th-century sashes with glazing bars, although there are some 20th-century replacements. There is a two-storey extension with a hipped roof on the right and a single-storey 18th-century wing on the left, along with some 20th-century additions. Inside, the building is mostly from the 19th century, but the single-storey rear wing retains some 18th-century fittings.

Local climate

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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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