Urchinwood Manor is a Grade II* listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1981. Manor house. 1 related planning application.

Urchinwood Manor

WRENN ID
silent-bailey-ivy
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
North Somerset
Constituency
Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 February 1981
Type
Manor house
Address
Urchinwood Manor, Urchinwood Lane, Congresbury, BS49 5AP
OS grid reference
ST 447 635
Coordinates
51.36836, -2.79527
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Urchinwood Manor is a manor house dated 1620, with a mid 17th century addition and 20th century restoration. It features colourwashed roughcast with stone openings, copings, and a double Roman tile roof on the main range, while the rear wings have pantiles. The building has a U-shaped plan formed by the original L-shaped house from 1620 and the later south-west rear addition. The principal east front is two storeys high with four bays, showcasing 3-light ovolo-moulded mullions with double ribbed faces and small leaded panes. The second window on the ground floor to the left is a 20th century insertion. A central gabled porch has a moulded Tudor-arched entrance and a similar inner doorway with a two-leaf plank door. There are four rendered stacks at the ends. The south facade features cross-mullion fenestration, and there is a later two-storey addition to the left of the rear courtyard.

Inside, the ground floor left-hand room has 17th century imported panelling and a plasterwork frieze with vine sprays and animal and figure panels, along with deeply chamfered beams. The right-hand room on the ground floor also has 17th century panelling and a Tudor-arched fireplace. An inglenook fireplace is present in the ground floor north-east room. The manor was built by the Young family.

Local climate

Urchinwood Manor receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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