The Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1952. Country house. 4 related planning applications.
The Manor House
- WRENN ID
- gentle-lantern-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1952
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- The Manor House, Driffield, GL7 5PZ
- OS grid reference
- SP 069 004
- Coordinates
- 51.7025, -1.90037
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Manor House is a country house, originally dating from the late 16th century with substantial alterations and a refronting in the early 18th century. The house is constructed of rubble stone, roughcast on the south-east front, with a parapet, cornice and small central pediment. It has a stone slate roof and stone stacks, some end stacks to the main range and others scattered elsewhere. The main range faces south-east, with rear wings and a smaller, likely older wing to the right.
The south-east front is two storeys high, featuring four windows on the first floor—three 12-pane sashes and one twin 4-pane sash—and five 18-pane sashes on the ground floor. All windows have moulded stone architraves, dropped keystones and small cornices. A six-fielded panel door is located to the left of centre, topped with a 3-light fanlight and an elaborate broken pediment resting on consoles, featuring a shield bearing the date "ANNO/1584". The left-hand return of the main range has further sash windows, with a mullion and transom window of two lights to each floor on the rear wing. The right-hand return includes a small attic light, stone-framed with a dripmould. The right-hand wing features a small gable with a two-light stone mullion and hoodmould above and a three-light window below.
Inside, there is an oak-panelled hall and an 18th-century marble fireplace in a ground-floor room on the left. Much of the original joinery has survived.
Local climate
The Manor House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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