Manor Day Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Gloucester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1955. Manor house. 1 related planning application.
Manor Day Centre
- WRENN ID
- fallen-loggia-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gloucester
- Constituency
- Gloucester MP: Alex McIntyre (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1955
- Type
- Manor house
- Address
- Manor Day Centre, Barnwood Road, GL4 3JX
- OS grid reference
- SO 863 178
- Coordinates
- 51.85918, -2.19935
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor house, dating to circa 1740, and subsequently expanded with substantial early and mid-19th century additions and 19th and 20th century alterations, now serving as a day centre for the elderly. The building is constructed of brick with stone and moulded brick detailing, featuring stone slate and Welsh slate roofs, as well as brick stacks. It is a double-depth block, comprising an 18th-century front range, a parallel mid-19th century range to the rear, and a service wing to the right.
The 18th-century front range is symmetrical, with five bays and a slightly projecting central bay. It has an offset stone plinth, a projecting stone band at first-floor level, and a crowning eaves cornice in moulded brick with close-set modillions. Chamfered stone quoins are at the outer corners, with bright red brick quoins on the corners of the central projection. The central entrance has a stone doorcase with an eared architrave, an entablature with a pulvinated frieze and pediment, and a raised keyblock above the recessed eight-panel door (the lower four panels fielded, the upper four infilled with later leadlight glazing). Ground-floor windows on either side of the door are plain 19th-century sashes in original openings with bright red, rubbed brick flat arches, key blocks, jambs, and projecting stone sills. First-floor windows are sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes), with the central sash framed by stone architraves and a projecting sill supported by bracket blocks carved with guttae. The side sashes have bright red brick flat arches, key blocks, jambs, and projecting stone sills. There are three attic dormers with pedimental gables, each containing casements with glazing bars (4x3 panes). Gable-end stacks and a rear stack are present, with frieze bands and cornices on the left hand and rear stacks, while the right hand stack has a removed cornice.
Internally, the room to the left of the central entrance hall retains its original 18th-century moulded plaster cornice; other rooms have been refitted in the 19th century. The building originally served as the manor house of the Bubb family estate.
Local climate
Manor Day Centre receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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