The Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1983. Farmhouse.
The Manor House
- WRENN ID
- former-steeple-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1983
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- The Manor House, Brettenham
- OS grid reference
- TL 929 835
- Coordinates
- 52.41552, 0.8355
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Manor House is a farmhouse dating from the 17th century and later. It is constructed of flint and brick and features a gabled slate roof. The building has two storeys and an attic, with an off-centre gabled entrance porch. On the ground floor, there are casement windows of various sizes on both the right and left sides, with those on the right including a transom. The first floor has alternating double and single casements, all with glazing bars that likely date from the late 18th century. A central hipped dormer is present, along with multiple gable stacks at the internal gable ends. The east gable wall has been rebuilt, while the west gable wall features a plinth and regular courses of brick and flint, with the bricks set apart. The ground floor has two casements with renewed hoods, and there are two blocked windows on the first floor. A brick string course runs along the eaves line. The attic has two tall, narrow windows with brick dressings and a parapet gable supported by brick kneelers. The rear of the house has been altered, with blocked segmental windows on the left side, a pair of sloped buttresses, and early 19th-century bordered sash windows on the first floor. There are also two hipped dormers. A high brick and flint wall connects to a barn.
Local climate
The 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 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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