Numbers 1 and 2 (The Old Manor House) is a Grade II* listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1955. Manor house. 1 related planning application.

Numbers 1 and 2 (The Old Manor House)

WRENN ID
rooted-rotunda-bracken
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Swindon
Constituency
Swindon North MP: Will Stone (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1955
Type
Manor house
Address
Numbers 1 and 2 (The Old Manor House), High Street, Highworth, SN6 7EU
OS grid reference
SU 202 924
Coordinates
51.63053, -1.70885
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Numbers 1 and 2, known as The Old Manor House, is a building dated 1656, which is a recasting of a much older house believed to incorporate remains of a 15th-century hall. The structure has two storeys and is built of coursed rubble with a steeply pitched stone slate roof. The left-hand gable features a renewed chimney with moulded capping. On the first floor, there are two four-light mullion windows with drips, and a central datestone panel that displays a carved axe and the date "BIS.1656."

The ground floor has been altered to accommodate a late 19th or early 20th-century shop front. It features a central entrance flanked by windows, with the house door located to the right, all under a drip. The entrance is supported by brick piers and quoins, and the fascia has moulded stops to chamfers and a rough stone finish. The gable end to the east shows a bressumer end.

Inside, there is a large Tudor arch fireplace on the ground floor and a smaller one on the first floor, both dating from the mid-17th century. The first floor also features a moulded plank and muntin partition, and a cariole stair is located to the right of the ground floor fireplace.

Local climate

Numbers 1 and 2 (The Old Manor House) receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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 2004
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
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