Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Exeter local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1953. House.
Manor House
- WRENN ID
- blind-keep-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exeter
- Constituency
- Exeter MP: Steve Race (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1953
- Type
- House
- Address
- Manor House, Cowick Lane
- OS grid reference
- SX 911 908
- Coordinates
- 50.70674, -3.54252
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Manor House, also known at one time as Alphington House, is a 18th-century building located on Cowick Lane. This two-storey house features seven windows and has a stucco front that was unattractively altered around 1840. The ground floor is partly rusticated, and the central parapet has been raised. Above the sash windows, the window openings have panels with incised ornament. A notable feature is the good late 18th-century pedimented porch, which has been relocated from the center of the building. The sash windows include glazing bars, and the slate roof has two dormers. Inside, one ground floor room boasts an 18th-century Rococo ceiling, and there are two "Adam" fireplaces along with fitted cupboards of a similar period in two bedrooms. The house is historically linked to Mr. Wells, who was known for "breaking the bank at Monte Carlo."
Local climate
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 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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