Royston Manor House is a Grade II* listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1964. Manor house. 4 related planning applications.
Royston Manor House
- WRENN ID
- knotted-joist-yarrow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1964
- Type
- Manor house
- Address
- Royston Manor House, 14, Melbourn Street, SG8 7BZ
- OS grid reference
- TL 356 407
- Coordinates
- 52.04835, -0.02299
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Royston Manor House is an early 18th-century building located on Melbourn Street. It features a combination of red stretchers and grey headers, topped with an old tiled roof. The structure has two storeys, basements, and attics, with a stone plinth and chamfered quoins, along with a first-floor band. The facade includes three box dormers and five sash windows set in flush frames, complete with moulded sills and flat arches. The entrance boasts a six-fielded panelled door topped with an oblong traceried fanlight, all framed by an architrave surround and a hood supported by carved consoles.
The back elevation is constructed of plum-coloured brick with red brick dressings, featuring a mansard roof with two box dormers behind a stone-coped parapet. Decorative elements include a plinth, a first-floor band, and a brick cornice with modillions, as well as a central pedimented projection. The window arrangement consists of two sets of four and two sash windows with glazing bars, all in reveals under flat arches. The central pair of first-floor windows is framed by a decorative surround with a sill on consoles, reeded Doric pilasters, and an entablature that projects forward over the pilasters. On the ground floor, there is a combined central window and half-glazed door, framed by Doric half columns beneath an entablature with a pediment, triglyphs, and guttae. To the right, there is a later lower recessed wing made of red brick, which has two sash windows.
Local climate
Royston Manor House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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