Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1979. Former farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Manor House

WRENN ID
sombre-vestry-grain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 August 1979
Type
Former farmhouse
Address
Manor House, the Street, Hockering, NR20 3AJ
OS grid reference
TG 072 131
Coordinates
52.67632, 1.06453
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Manor House is a former farmhouse dating from the 17th century and later. It is built of brick in English bond with a plaintile roof over the main block. The building features a long main block with a 17th-century two-storey non-contemporary block at the rear, along with 19th-century extensions. It has two storeys and an attic, with a facade that shows extensively patched brickwork and irregularly placed fenestration, including six 19th-century three-light chamfered mullion and transom windows. There is one boarded door and one 19th-century panelled door with a simple moulded doorcase, along with a later dentil cornice. The house has three 19th-century gabled dormers with wavy barge boards and an off-centre axial stack. The gables feature crow-stepped designs and rectangular hood moulds over the gable windows. The rear wall includes a re-used five-light hollow chamfered mullion window. The rear block has a sawtooth cornice and a hipped roof, with a 19th-century canted bay on one side and a re-used window on the other side, which has an early metal casement with a spring catch. There are metal railings with spear terminals surrounding the rear yard. Inside, there is a winding stair beside the stack with original treads leading to the attic, plain chamfered bridging joists, and an original butt purlin roof.

Local climate

Manor House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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