The Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Manor House
- WRENN ID
- open-mullion-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- North Cornwall MP: Ben Maguire (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Manor House, Govena Hill, Wadebridge, PL27 6BS
- OS grid reference
- SW 991 725
- Coordinates
- 50.51814, -4.83413
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Manor House is a building converted into offices, dating from around the mid-18th century. It is constructed of stuccoed, rendered, and painted stone rubble, topped with a rag slate roof featuring hipped ends and brick end stacks. At the rear, there is a lower two-storey range with a slate roof and gable ends, also with a brick end stack. The overall layout is 'L' shaped, with a central entrance leading into a wide entrance hall. A staircase projects slightly to the rear of the hall, with a small reception room on the left and a larger reception room on the right, both heated by end stacks. The kitchen is located in the wing behind the left-hand room, with an additional service range beyond, added in a later 18th-century extension, which is also heated by an end stack. In the mid-20th century, the right-hand room served as the magistrates' courts.
The exterior features two storeys and an attic, with a symmetrical five-window front and a flat banded string course above the ground floor. The central entrance is adorned with a pediment supported by console brackets, leading to a late 18th-century panelled door and fanlight above. There are two 12-pane sash windows on either side of the entrance, with the second sash featuring mid-18th-century thick glazing bars, while the other sashes are likely from the 19th century. On the first floor, five 12-pane sashes are present, with the second window from the left probably dating to the early 20th century, and the others likely from the mid-18th century with thick glazing bars. The attic includes two full hipped dormers with 19th-century two-light casements.
Inside, the entrance hall has a cornice that is likely from the 19th century. The mid-18th-century chinoiserie open well staircase features a moulded and ramped rail, illuminated by a mid-18th-century sash window on the rear elevation. The right-hand room has a mid-18th-century moulded cornice and china cupboards, with the chimney-piece probably dating from the 19th century. A partition has been added across this room to create two separate spaces. The first floor is not accessible.
Local climate
The Manor House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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