Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 January 1990. House. 2 related planning applications.
Manor House
- WRENN ID
- long-window-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 January 1990
- Type
- House
- Address
- Manor House, Palm Cross Green, Modbury, PL21 0RA
- OS grid reference
- SX 656 517
- Coordinates
- 50.35011, -3.88963
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor House is a house now divided into two parts, with Manor Cottage attached on the right. It likely dates from the 16th and 17th centuries but has been significantly altered in the 18th and 19th centuries. The exterior is rendered with slate roofs, including some asbestos cement slate on the back gabled wing and one slate-hung gable. The building may have originally been a hall house, featuring a two-storey porch, but it has undergone many changes, making the original layout difficult to determine.
The Manor House consists of two sections. The right side is a lower two-storey unit with a gabled porch that projects forward. On the left side, there is a 16-pane porch at each level, with the upper one serving as a half-dormer to the sloping roof. The right porch features a 16-pane sash window above an arched light with radial bars, likely part of the original entrance, along with a small 4-pane light on the return at the first floor. The left side, also two storeys, has a small single light and a 16-pane sash window at each level, with the upper sash in a raking half-dormer. To the right, there is a 20th-century glazed door with a hood, opposite a large rendered composite chimney stack.
The return side facing Back Street has one deep-set light low in the wall. The back of the house includes a gabled wing opposite the porch, a second lower gabled arm to the left of the stack, and a door beneath a swept slate roof, with various windows including sashes. Inside, there is a moulded panel door within the porch and a ribbed plank door with strap hinges at the back. Notable features include a cast iron pump dated 1820 by W. WROTH and a granite trough. A tight staircase leads to the upper floor, which contains part of a plank and panel screen, some 17th-century panelling, and cruck-like principals.
Local climate
Manor House receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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