The Manor House is a Grade II* listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1952. Farmhouse, restaurant. 2 related planning applications.
The Manor House
- WRENN ID
- pale-bronze-fen
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1952
- Type
- Farmhouse, restaurant
- Address
- The Manor House, Gaunt's Earthcott Lane, Almondsbury, BS32 4JR
- OS grid reference
- ST 635 842
- Coordinates
- 51.5555, -2.52769
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Manor House is a farmhouse, now used as a restaurant and private residence, with a core dating to the 16th century. Further development occurred in 1603, with a south block added in 1680. Later alterations and additions have also been made. The construction is of coursed rubble with stone dressings, and it is roofed with double Roman tiles, with pantiles to the rear, and features ball finials to the gables, except for two on the east side of the front. The building is in an L-shape.
It is two storeys and an attic in height, with three irregular gables facing the front. There are three windows to the front, two on the ground floor and two on the first floor. C19 twelve-pane sash windows are set in exposed boxes with drip moulds to the left-hand gable. The other windows are two and three-light casements under timber lintels. An attic window to the left gable also has a drip mould. The right-hand gable has a plank door with strap hinges in a plain wooden frame, and a large external stack above. A two-storey porch is located between two gables on the left, featuring a three-light casement with a cornice on the first floor, an opening with a timber lintel, and a small square window on the ground floor; a two-panelled door in a heavy frame, with scroll and ovolo moulding and strap hinges. The east side displays a four-light casement at ground floor, a three-light casement at first floor, and a two-light casement in the attic, all with timber lintels. A buttress is positioned to the left, and a garderobe tower to the right. The west side has two gables: the right gable has an oval bull's eye window in a plain surround at ground floor, a sundial at the upper level and a gable stack. The left gable has two ground floor and two first floor C19 twelve-pane sashes with timber lintel, drip mould and bearing arch to all except the first floor right, which is a three-light casement with drip mould. The rear features two gables; both have gable stacks and random one and two-light casements. A C20 door is located centrally, with single-storey additions to the left and centre, both with double Roman tiled pitched roofs.
The interior includes a through passage and a rear stair turret containing a dog-leg staircase. The staircase has an ovolo-moulded newel post, string and handrail, alongside moulded and stopped beams and door frames.
Local climate
The Manor House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
- 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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