The Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1988. Manor house.
The Manor House
- WRENN ID
- rusted-quoin-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1988
- Type
- Manor house
- Address
- The Manor House, Leigh Road, Holt
- OS grid reference
- ST 856 625
- Coordinates
- 51.36226, -2.20697
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Manor House is a manor house that dates from the late 17th century, late 18th century, mid 19th century, and early 20th century. It is constructed of rubble stone with a hipped roof made of Welsh slate and features stone stacks. The building has a rambling L-plan and is two stories tall with a six-window front.
The entrance includes a recessed 20th-century door with a niche to the right and a small sash window to the left, all within a Tuscan portico dating to around 1980. On the first floor, there are two 16-pane sash windows. The house has matching flanking wings; the left wing features two 12-pane sash windows on both the ground and first floors, while the right wing has two 16-pane sash windows on both levels.
A mid-19th-century ashlar wing projects to the left and includes 12-pane sash windows and a plat band. The right return of the house has five French windows on the ground floor set within a 20th-century loggia, five sash windows on the first floor, and two flat-headed attic dormers with 2-light casements. The left return has 8-pane sashes on the 19th-century wing, while the left return of the 17th-century range features two cross windows with fillet mouldings on the ground floor and three on the first floor, along with a moulded string course. The wing to the left, originally built for services, has sashes and a six-panelled door, with a gable end that includes a datestone from 1913.
At the rear, there are lean-to extensions, a half-glazed door, and both 4-pane and 16-pane sash windows. The gable end of the 17th-century range has early 20th-century renewed cross windows and a string course. The interior has been largely remodelled in the 20th century but retains original early 19th-century joinery, including six-panelled doors in moulded architraves, window shutters, an open-well staircase with stick balusters, cantilevered stone stairs with a moulded handrail, and chamfered beams in the 17th-century range, along with moulded 17th-century balusters on the attic landing.
Local climate
The Manor House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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