Manor House is a Grade II* listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1956. House. 4 related planning applications.
Manor House
- WRENN ID
- quartered-terrace-pigeon
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1956
- Type
- House
- Address
- Manor House, High Street, Wellow, BA2 8QQ
- OS grid reference
- ST 740 583
- Coordinates
- 51.32329, -2.37403
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor House is a house dated 1634 on the porch at the rear, though it may be a remodelling of an earlier structure. It is built of rubble with freestone dressings and features a Cotswold stone slate roof, with double Roman tiles at the rear and coped raised verges. The house has an asymmetrical L plan and is two storeys high with attics in hipped dormers. The taller gabled cross wing to the left has two storeys, a basement, and attics in a steep stone gable. The High Street elevation includes two windows and a door to the right, and a single window to the left, all of which are three-light casements with ovolo and ogee moulded mullions and surrounds under drip moulds, with relieving arches over the left windows. The central door on the right part is a six-panel door beneath a flat stone hood on brackets.
At the rear, the cross wing features a projecting one-storey gabled porch with an ovolo moulded doorcase and a four-centred arch lintel. The spandrels display shields with "H/GI" (Hungerford) and "16/34". The inner door is a plank studded door with strap hinges and a four-centred arch lintel. There is also a single-storey service wing to the left.
Inside, there are stop-chamfered beams. The dining room on the east side is an early to mid-18th century panelled room with a bolection moulded fireplace. The study, located on the first floor of the cross wing, is a 17th-century panelled room featuring a moulded fireplace with a four-centred arch lintel and a coarsely carved Jacobean overmantel that bears the Hungerford arms, along with caryatids and atlants. The adjoining drawing room contains fragments of 17th-century panelling, an ashlar fireplace with a four-centred arch lintel and a pulvinated frieze on consoles. There are three plank doors on the east side of this room, one leading to a lobby and two, with a decorative frieze above, leading to the staircase, all with ovolo moulded surrounds. The altered winder stair has twisted balusters, and there are plain chamfered ashlar fireplaces with four-centred arch lintels in two main bedrooms.
Local climate
Manor House receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 3 transactions since 2000
- 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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