Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1986. House.
Manor House
- WRENN ID
- fallow-rampart-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Suffolk
- Constituency
- Lowestoft MP: Jess Asato (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Manor House, Church Road, Mutford
- OS grid reference
- TM 485 885
- Coordinates
- 52.43797, 1.65485
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor House is a house that dates from the early 19th century for its front range, while the rear range has been extensively rebuilt and includes elements from around 1300, the 16th century, late 17th century, and the 19th century. The front range is constructed of pale yellow brick and features a hipped slated roof. It has two storeys and three bays, with flanking pilaster strips and a narrow centre bay. The windows are inset sash style with glazing bars and flat stuccoed lintels, with the first-floor windows on the left and right being blind. The entrance has a six-panel door with a semi-circular fanlight that also has glazing bars, set within a semi-circular arched recess. A wooden bracketed eaves cornice completes the front.
The rear range is primarily timber framed, now faced in colourwashed brick, and has a roof of black pantiles. It has two storeys and an attic. The section adjacent to the front range contains remnants of one bay of a two-bay late 13th or early 14th-century aisled hall, from which the aisles have been removed. There is one octagonal arcade post with a much mutilated carved capital, while the opposite post may still exist but is not visible. The open truss features doubled passing braces halved against the arcade post and tie beam, although the braces to the arcade plate and tie beam are missing, leaving the mortices visible. On the west side, the arcade plate is fully exposed, showcasing a stop-splayed and tabled scarf joint with a transverse key and sallied butts. An intermediate tie beam is positioned over this joint. The main timbers are numbered: the tie beam, arcade plate, and arcade post of the open truss are all marked IV; an additional tie beam and arcade plate are marked V; and the arcade plate in the position of the missing truss is marked VI. Two further bays were added in the 16th century, possibly when the current floor was inserted in the open hall. Slightly moulded joists are exposed on both floors, but much of the studwork has been lost. The roof over the entire rear range is from the 19th century.
Local climate
Manor House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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