The Old Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Manor House
- WRENN ID
- strange-cobble-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Truro and Falmouth MP: Jayne Kirkham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 June 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Manor House, Philleigh
- OS grid reference
- SW 880 404
- Coordinates
- 50.22631, -4.97348
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Manor House is an 18th-century house that incorporates parts of an earlier structure. It was home to the Petit family when permission for a chapel was granted in 1285. The house features carved stone medieval fragments in the garden wall. The walls are made of slatestone rubble, and it has a steep dry Delabole slate roof that is hipped to the left. There is a 20th-century brick chimney over the original external stone breast and another brick chimney over the gable end to the right, as well as a gable end for the mostly 20th-century rear wing. The layout consists of a two-room cross passage plus a rear wing, and the house is two storeys tall.
The nearly symmetrical south front has three windows and was partly rebuilt in the 20th century on the first floor, featuring 20th-century 16-pane sash windows. The central doorway is located within a 20th-century stone porch that has a coped gable end and a doorway with a freestone hoodmould. Inside, there are some reused fragments, but a 16th or 17th-century granite fireplace with straight chamfers and pyramid stops remains in the left room. A cloam oven to the left of the fireplace is a 18th or 19th-century addition. Many reused moulded and carved stones are incorporated into the 20th-century stone garden wall. Excavations for drainage in the 1970s uncovered extensive foundations of the older house.
Local climate
The Old Manor House receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 5 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 2 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings