The Manor House is a Grade II* listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. Manor house. 4 related planning applications.
The Manor House
- WRENN ID
- second-thatch-scarlet
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1963
- Type
- Manor house
- Address
- The Manor House, the Green South, Warborough, OX10 7DN
- OS grid reference
- SU 600 934
- Coordinates
- 51.63708, -1.13379
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Manor House is a Grade II* listed manor house built in 1696, with extensions added in the early 18th century and late 19th century. It is constructed from coursed squared clunch rubble with red-brick dressings and features an old plain-tile roof with brick stacks. The building has a two-unit lobby-entry plan that has been extended to form an L-shape. It stands two storeys high, plus attics, and has a six-window front. This front includes stepped brick plinth weatherings, windows with gauged-brick flat arches, and moulded-brick floating cornices. The original symmetrical five-window range features a central six-panel door, two-light leaded casements on the ground floor, and cross windows on the first floor, with the central window being narrower and having a datestone above it.
To the right, there is a projecting cross wing that matches the main house's character, with two windows on the ground floor and one above. There is also an additional entrance at the angle of the ranges. The hipped roofs contain four hipped dormers, and the stacks rise in line with the doorway and at the ends, with the left stack featuring two diagonal shafts. A lower brick extension from the 19th century is located to the left and has been further extended to the rear in the 20th century.
At the rear, the original range has a symmetrical arrangement with cross windows on the first floor and a combination of three, one, and three-light windows on the ground floor, all with brick labels. The rear projection of the cross wing has been cut off and built up flush in brick.
Inside, there are remains of two large open fireplaces with moulded-brick backs, one of which is curved. The interior features cross beams with elaborate chamfer stops, an open-well stair with a renewed balustrade leading to the attics, and bolection fireplaces in the wing. The roof has clasped purlins. A stone wall extending to the rear from the right end of the house has five small triangular-headed recesses, possibly bee-boles, and bears the inscription "A. WHITE/ 1759". The datestone on the front wall of the house is inscribed with "H/WM," representing William and Martha Harford.
Local climate
The Manor House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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