Manor House and Manor Cottage is a Grade II* listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1951. A Post-medieval House. 5 related planning applications.

Manor House and Manor Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Swindon
Constituency
Swindon North MP: Will Stone (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 October 1951
Type
House
Period
Post-medieval
Address
Manor House and Manor Cottage, Cheney Manor Road, Central Swindon North, SN2 2NY
OS grid reference
SU 138 865
Coordinates
51.57789, -1.80168
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Manor House and Manor Cottage is a building that has been divided into two dwellings. It dates from the late 16th century to the 20th century and is constructed from coursed Swindon stone rubble with squared quoins. The 18th century section features limestone ashlar quoins and decorative limestone rubble alongside the Swindon stone. The building has stone stacks with diamond brick shafts and is covered with stone tiles and ridges.

The core of the building, which is from the late 16th century, consists of two bays with an offset room that has a wide gable at the front. In the 18th century, it was lengthened by one bay and given a new facade. An early 19th-century dairy extension is located to the left, with a hayloft above it, and there is a late 19th-century brick addition at the rear that contains service rooms. A 20th-century lean-to porch with cloaks has also been added. The building is two stories high.

The core building features hollow chamfered stone-mullioned windows and three-light cross windows at the rear, which have pointed relieving arches. The gable now has an off-centre 19th-century tripartite four-pane sash window. The 18th-century remodelling of the right wing includes three bays with 16-pane sashes in flush quoined surrounds and a central flat-roofed porch with an original doorcase that has been reset forward. The original dairy to the left has a 16-pane sash window and a casement window. The rear late 19th-century service addition partially covers the original windows.

Inside, there is a 17th-century panelled room on the first floor that features Jacobean royal arms above the fireplace. The ground floor includes a large inglenook fireplace. Some minor alterations to the building are currently taking place as of July 1985.

Local climate

Manor House and Manor Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 1999
  • Related listed building consents — 5 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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