Manor House is a Grade II* listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. House.
Manor House
- WRENN ID
- lone-cobble-owl
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Manor House, Church Street, Marsh Gibbon, OX27 0HW
- OS grid reference
- SP 647 231
- Coordinates
- 51.90333, -1.06042
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor House is a Grade II* listed building dating from the mid-16th century, featuring a hall with side wings that were extended and altered in the 17th and 18th centuries. The structure is built of coursed rubble stone with some stone dressings and has old tile roofs adorned with 17th-century bargeboards and finials at the gables, although the right-hand gable has been renewed. The chimney stacks are made of thin brick with square shafts set diagonally, with four on the main stack between the right-hand bays and two on the left side. The main stack includes a moulded brick panel at its base. The house has leaded windows and consists of two storeys, attics, and a cellar.
The east front features four bays, each with a gable facing the front. The two central bays of the hall are recessed, with a two-storey projecting porch to the left and a canted bay window to the right, both flush with the outer bays, which have rendered gables above. The porch and bay window are accented with dressed quoins. The porch has a moulded 4-centred arch with a flat hoodmould, and a jettied timber frame with stone infill on the first floor. The entrance features a 16th-century six-panelled studded door with its original hinges and catches. The two-storey bay window has moulded string courses and six-light stone mullion and transom windows. There is a three-light wooden mullion window in the attic and a small cellar window between the bays. The outer bays are wider, featuring wooden mullion and transom windows—three-light in the left-hand bay and six-light in the right-hand bay, with the first-floor window in the right bay having been renewed. The attics also have three-light wooden mullion windows, and the right-hand bay includes two similar staircase windows on the left.
The south front of the left-hand wing was remodelled in the 18th century and features five bays of barred sash windows with timber lintels, French doors to the left, and an external stack between the right-hand bays. Inside, the hall contains a large stone fireplace from the 16th century with a moulded 4-centred arch, and there is a similar smaller fireplace in the upper room of the right wing. The same room has altered 16th-century panelling and moulded doorcases. A 16th-century staircase with turned balusters, square newel posts, and acorn finials is located at the rear of the hall, while a smaller staircase with bell finials is found in the right-hand wing. The left-hand wing features 18th-century panelling and a stone moulded fireplace.
Local climate
Manor House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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