Manor Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 1986. Farmhouse.
Manor Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- solitary-clay-sorrel
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Manor Farmhouse, Rumburgh Road, Wissett
- OS grid reference
- TM 360 796
- Coordinates
- 52.36428, 1.46613
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early and late 16th century. It is timber-framed, faced, and partly encased in late 19th-century red brick, with the remainder rendered. The roof is covered with a mix of clay and black-glazed pantiles. An internal chimney stack with a plain red brick shaft is located between the lower and higher ends of the house. The building has two storeys and an attic in parts. There are various 20th-century casement windows, along with one large four-light reproduction mullion-and-transome window.
The older section of the house, to the west of the stack, consists of three bays, divided on the ground floor into a two-bay main room and an adjoining service room. The main room features a plain exposed ceiling with unchamfered joists. Evidence of a large five-light diamond-mullioned window can be seen in the front wall. The upper floor is a large room with two open trusses, cambered tie-beams, and long solid arched braces, with the rafters ceiled off and inaccessible. There are blocked original diamond-mullioned windows in the side and gable walls.
To the east of the stack is a late 16th-century parlour wing, which is integral to the stack. The ground-floor ceiling features very fine cross-beams with multiple roll-mouldings, roll-moulded joists, and a cornice. The moulding continues down all the main posts. In the gable wall, which was originally jettied, there was a mullion-and-transome oriel window, along with short flanking side windows that still have the moulded mullions. There are plain timber lintels above both ground and first-floor fireplaces, and the original upper ceilings remain intact. A newel stair is located beside the stack.
Local climate
Manor Farmhouse 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 greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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