Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. A Early Modern Manor house. 1 related planning application.
Manor House
- WRENN ID
- former-bailey-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Manor house
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- Manor House, the Green, Thornborough, MK18 2DQ
- OS grid reference
- SP 743 336
- Coordinates
- 51.99638, -0.91788
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Manor House, formerly known as Thornborough Manor, is a manor house dating from the 17th century, with alterations and extensions made in the early 18th century for Benjamin Woodnorth, the High Sheriff of Buckingham. It underwent restoration in the early 20th century. The building is constructed of coursed rubble stone with dressed stone window heads, offset brick eaves, and old tile roofs. It has a U-shaped plan, with the northern wing being part of the original 17th-century structure and the southern range added in the early 18th century.
The house is two storeys high with an attic. The northwest gable features a stone stack with three square brick shafts and a buttress at the ground floor. The eastern front has a southern wing with three bays, showcasing leaded mullion and transom windows in the left-hand bays and upper right. The right-hand bay contains a six-panelled door set within a wooden doorcase supported by Doric columns and a plain entablature, with a 2-light leaded casement window above. There are three hipped dormers with leaded casements, with the outer bays having 3-light windows and the centre bay featuring paired windows. A lean-to structure is located at the left end.
To the right, a slightly projecting lower range is connected by a half-hipped roof and features a first-floor band course along with two bays of leaded casements, predominantly 3-light, with a 4-light window in the upper left. The western front of the early 18th-century block is similar, featuring a Doric doorcase with rusticated blocks, pilasters, an entablature with a triglyph frieze, and a segmental pediment.
Inside, the staircase, dating from around 1740, has turned balusters, fluted Tuscan newel columns, and an open string with scroll brackets. The stairwell is adorned with 18th-century bolection panelling, and there is re-sited panelling in the northwest ground floor room.
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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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