Manor Cottage and Wall and Gatepiers Fronting the Road is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1984. House. 9 related planning applications.
Manor Cottage and Wall and Gatepiers Fronting the Road
- WRENN ID
- guardian-mortar-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Milton Keynes
- Constituency
- Milton Keynes North MP: Chris Curtis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Manor Cottage and Wall and Gatepiers Fronting the Road, Cross Lane, Weston Underwood, MK46 5LD
- OS grid reference
- SP 866 506
- Coordinates
- 52.14693, -0.73506
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor Cottage is a 17th-century house constructed from coursed rubblestone with a plaintile roof. The building features three bays and two storeys, including dormers, and is positioned at right angles to the road, with a wall extending north-west along the roadside. The entrance door, located between the right-hand bays of the north-west front, is topped by an open gabled hood. The left bay contains a 4-light stone framed and mullioned window from the 17th century, while the right bay has a 3-light timber casement. On the first floor, there is a 6-light stone mullioned window on the right, a 3-light stone window in the centre bay, and another 3-light timber casement on the left. All windows are leaded. The gable ends are stone coped and supported by kneelers. There are two 2-light dormers on the right-hand bays. The west gable features a stack, and there is another stack between the left-hand bays.
To the south-west, fronting the road, there is a 1-bay, 2-storey 18th-century wing with an old tile roof. The ground floor has a stone framed window, while the upper floor features a timber casement. The stone garden wall is eight feet high and topped with pantile copings. Halfway along the wall are two 18th-century entrance gate piers, which have moulded plinths, necking strings, cornice caps with ball finials, and show some signs of repair. Inside the house, there is a 17th-century staircase with turned balusters and newel posts that have round heads.
Local climate
Manor Cottage and Wall and Gatepiers Fronting the Road 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 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 9 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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