The Old Manor House and Attached Rear Courtyard Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1975. Hotel.
The Old Manor House and Attached Rear Courtyard Wall
- WRENN ID
- plain-window-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Constituency
- North East Somerset and Hanham MP: Dan Norris (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1975
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Old Manor House and Attached Rear Courtyard Wall, Bristol Road, Keynsham
- OS grid reference
- ST 652 688
- Coordinates
- 51.41761, -2.5005
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Manor House, now functioning as a hotel, is believed to date from 1617, with a restoration in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of squared and coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and copings, topped by a gabled pantile roof featuring stone stacks at both ends and along the mid-ridge.
Architecturally, it is designed in the Tudor Gothic style and has a cross-passage, double-depth plan with rear service wings that run parallel to the road, along with an additional range at right angles to the north. The house is two stories tall with an attic and features a six-window range. The facade facing the road was completely remodeled in the mid-19th century, showcasing three four-light and one three-light chamfered-mullion windows with dripstones on the ground floor, and four three-light mullion windows on the first floor. There are also two gabled half-dormers with two-light mullion windows.
A central gabled porch includes a Tudor-arched outer entrance and an original Tudor-arched doorway with a plank door. A square turret rises through the roof at the northeast corner, featuring slit windows and a spired tile cap. The stacks have paired shafts, with a row of three on the north side, and ridge tile cresting. The gable end of the north range facing the road has a blocked mullioned window.
The rear courtyard is defined by three gabled wings extending from the main range to the left, along with an early 19th-century outshut with a gable at the southwest corner. The gable ends are topped with coped parapets, with the northern end featuring a tall ashlar stack. Most of the windows are early 19th-century plate-glass sashes set in flush ashlar surrounds, while the southwest outshut has plate-glass sashes with margin glazing beneath cambered heads.
Inside, the cross-passage has small late 18th-century wooden elliptical arches on the ceiling, a two-light chamfered-mullion window on the south wall, and an early 19th-century stained glass window on the rear wall. A large inglenook fireplace is located in the right-hand room on the ground floor.
The rear courtyard includes a retaining wall that supports ancillary buildings. This wall is approximately 2 meters high, made of squared, random coursed limestone with some minor brick infill, and features cambered ashlar coping stones along with cement coping.
Local climate
The Old Manor House and Attached Rear Courtyard Wall receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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