Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1951. House.
Manor House
- WRENN ID
- tired-cobalt-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Manor House, Quayfield Road, Ilfracombe, EX34 9EN
- OS grid reference
- SS 523 476
- Coordinates
- 51.20927, -4.11584
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor House is an imposing detached house with wings, built around the 1750s to 1770s, and has undergone later alterations. It features a red brick exterior and a slated roof with red ridge tiles, built into the hillside with a single-room depth. The house has three storeys and two-storey flanking wings, with a total of seven windows plus single window wings. The central section has a three-window canted bay, with red brick pilasters at the corners and terracotta floor bands. The entrance is located to the left of the canted bay and features a 20th-century panelled door. The windows are flush framed sashes with exposed boxing, and the wings have 20th-century sashes. The building is topped with a brick dentil cornice and a parapet.
Inside, the house has been divided into separate accommodations and altered. It was the town house of the Wreys of Tawstock, who were Lords of the Manor. Sir Bourchier Falk Wrey, who died here in 1879, appears to be the last family member to occupy the house. Manor House is a prominent and important feature of the harbour.
Local climate
Manor House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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