Manor Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. Farmhouse.

Manor Farmhouse

WRENN ID
swift-brick-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
West Suffolk
Constituency
Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket MP: Dr Peter Prinsley (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 July 1955
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Manor Farmhouse, Sapiston Road, Honington
OS grid reference
TL 911 746
Coordinates
52.33659, 0.80492
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Manor Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates back to the 16th century, with extensions added in the early 17th century and the 18th century. The building has two storeys and attics, consisting of six bays. It features a timber-framed structure that is plastered, topped with a hipped roof covered in black glazed pantiles and a coved plaster cornice. At the east end, there are remains of a cross-wing, which has a red brick north gable that includes a chimney-stack. Inside, there are three red brick internal chimney-stacks with corbelled-out heads leading to rectangular shafts.

The ground storey has four early 20th-century three-light mullion-and-transom type windows with hood moulds, along with a single-storey canted bay that has a slate roof and similar windows. There are six additional similar windows on the upper storey, and one flat-headed dormer window on the east slope of the roof. The entrance features an off-centre half-glazed door with a flat pediment and bolection-moulded architrave.

The central four bays represent the core of the original 16th-century building, although the layout has been obscured by later changes. The 17th-century cross-wing at the east end was reduced in size during the 18th century when the house was refronted and likely reroofed. The 18th century also saw the addition of a room at the west end, which has a coved ceiling and intersecting plastered beams adorned with bead-and-reel ornament. The staircase features twisted balusters and decorated open strings, and there is a small room next to the main entry that includes an original corner fireplace and a plastered cornice with egg-and-dart ornament.

Local climate

Manor Farmhouse 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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