The Manor House is a Grade I listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. A Post-Medieval House.
The Manor House
- WRENN ID
- riven-wall-candle
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- The Manor House, The Manor House (Knook Manor), BA12 0JG
- OS grid reference
- ST 937 417
- Coordinates
- 51.17518, -2.09092
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Manor House is a detached house dating from the 16th century, with alterations made in the early 17th century. It is constructed of dressed limestone and features a tiled roof with coped verges and stone stacks that have moulded cappings. The building is designed in an L-plan, with the hall range having a lateral stack at the rear. It is two storeys high and has a three-window front.
At the centre of the front, there is a two-storey gabled porch with Tudor-arched openings. Above the porch, there is a 2-light mullioned casement on the first floor, along with a date stone from 1637. To the left, there are 3-light and 2-light mullioned casements, while to the right, there is a 4-light casement. The first floor features a 4-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement with hoodmoulds on either side of the porch, as well as two additional 4-light mullioned casements with hoodmoulds.
The projecting wing to the right has buttresses with offsets and 2-light mullioned casements on the left side, an external stack, and 2-light and 3-light mullioned casements on the gable end. The right return includes 2-light and 3-light mullioned casements with hoodmoulds, a 20th-century conservatory, and a central 3-light mullioned casement that lights the stairs. The wing features buttresses extending to the eaves and three 2-light mullioned casements on the first floor.
At the rear of the main range, there is a large lateral stack to the left, a glazed 20th-century door, and 3-light and 4-light mullioned casements on the ground floor, along with 3-light mullioned casements on the first floor, all with hoodmoulds. The rear gable end of the wing has 4-light mullioned casements. The left return has an attached single-storey addition with a 2-light ovolo-mullioned casement on the first floor.
Inside, the main room features an inserted 16th-century Italian stone fireplace, while the room to the left has an open fireplace with a raised cambered lintel on stone jambs. The 17th-century wing includes Tudor-arched stone fireplaces on both the ground and first floors, as well as an ovolo-moulded door case with stops between the wing and the main range. There are 8-panelled wainscot doors, some of which are early 20th-century copies. The stairs in the wing have ovolo-moulded newels, but some balusters are missing. The house was restored by the Crichton-Maitland family in the 1920s.
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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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