Old Manor Cottages is a Grade II* listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1960. A Early Modern Manor house.
Old Manor Cottages
- WRENN ID
- waning-moat-bistre
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1960
- Type
- Manor house
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- Old Manor Cottages, Blockley, GL55 6XL
- OS grid reference
- SP 186 378
- Coordinates
- 52.03852, -1.72993
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Manor Cottages is a former manor house dating from the mid-17th century. It is two storeys high with an attic and has an irregular L-shaped plan. The building is constructed of quality cut ashlar stone and features tiled roofs. It has a chamfered plinth and gables with saddlestones, which include blind rusticated bulls-eye panels, a characteristic local feature. The cottage has mullion windows with three and four lights, each with drips positioned below the gables. There is a Tudor arch doorway located to the left of the angle with the north-west wing, topped with a cornice. To the right of the doorway, there is a range of arched windows, also with drips. Extensions are present to both the left and right, with the right extension being half-hipped.
The rear of the building is irregular, featuring a doorway that is now a window, aligned with the front door. There is a gable that rises from the wall face to the left of the center, along with two single-light windows to the right of the center. Inside, the north-east wing contains a large inglenook fireplace on the ground floor, complete with a cambered timber lintel.
Local climate
Old Manor Cottages receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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