Manor House Including Attached Service Range to East is a Grade II* listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1973. A C18 House.

Manor House Including Attached Service Range to East

WRENN ID
heavy-column-meadow
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 January 1973
Type
House
Address
Manor House Including Attached Service Range to East, Norwich Road, Swaffham
OS grid reference
TF 824 090
Coordinates
52.64835, 0.6951
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Manor House, which includes an attached service range to the east, is a building dating from around 1740 with later extensions. It is constructed of red brick with rendered dressings and features both slate and pantiled roofs.

The west front is two storeys high with a dormer attic and consists of a seven-window range. It has rendered rusticated quoins and a central set of 20th-century double glazed doors beneath a pediment supported by scrolled consoles. Flanking the doors are tall fixed windows with glazing bars that light the central hall. Beyond these, there are two 2/2 unhorned sash windows on each side, all set under gauged skewback arches. The central window on the first floor is blind, while the two left-hand windows are 20th-century casements; the remainder are sashes as previously described. A brick modillion eaves cornice runs along the roof, which is hipped and features a segment-headed dormer fitted with a 3/3 horned sash window. There are two ridge stacks.

To the south, there is an early 19th-century two-storey extension with a two-window range, which includes tall French doors on the ground floor and sashes on the upper floor that lead to a wrought-iron balcony. This extension has a hipped roof with one stack on the east and west wall planes. A two-storey extension to the east, built in the 1930s, is also present.

At the rear, there is a service range from the late 19th century, which is two storeys high and has a six-window range, constructed of red brick with a slate hipped roof. The fenestration consists of 2/2 unhorned sashes, and there is a ridge stack. Further east, a two-storey stable range extends, made of flint and red brick with a pantiled roof, featuring two 20th-century garage doors and mixed fenestration, topped with a gabled roof.

Inside, the hall features a screen of two Roman Doric columns and pilasters. There is a late 19th-century staircase with a cast-iron balustrade and a raised oval roof light supported on consoles. The two principal ground-floor rooms are adorned with complete large-framed panelling and moulded cornices, with a shell cupboard in the south room. The two principal bedrooms above have associated dressing rooms, and there is partial large-framed panelling in the north pair of rooms and on the upper landing of the staircase. The south pair of rooms have complete large-framed fielded panelling, and the 19th-century roof includes principals, collars, and one tier of windbraces.

Local climate

Manor House Including Attached Service Range to East sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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