Manor House is a Grade II* listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1966. A Georgian House.

Manor House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Aylesbury MP: Laura Kyrke-Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 October 1966
Type
House
Period
Georgian
Address
Manor House, Mentmore
OS grid reference
SP 906 196
Coordinates
51.86813, -0.68425
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Manor House is a mid-18th century house constructed of red and vitreous brick, featuring red brick quoins and window surrounds. The building has a moulded plinth, an eaves-line band course, and a parapet with tile coping. It has an old tile roof that is slightly Mansard in style, with triangular stone-coped gables and flanking brick chimneys. The house is two storeys tall with an attic and consists of five bays. It has 3-pane sash windows with thick glazing bars, architrave frames, moulded sills, and gauged brick heads, although the ground floor sashes have been renewed. The attic features hipped dormers with paired leaded casements.

The central entrance is an 8-panelled door with a rectangular fanlight, set within a wooden doorcase that includes a panelled frieze, a flat wooden hood supported by shaped brackets, and panelled Doric pilasters. To the left, there is a single-storey brick extension from the 19th to 20th century with a hipped slate roof. A lower wing at right angles to the rear is likely older but has been altered and extended.

Inside, the house boasts a good interior with 18th-century panelling in the main ground and first-floor rooms. The lower rooms feature 19th-century marble fireplaces, while the upper rooms retain original wooden fireplaces and 19th-century grates. The upper left room includes two closets with doors and fanlights. The central hall contains an 18th-century staircase with turned balusters and carved tread ends, and the attic stair also features turned balusters along with panelled cupboards and a bulkhead.

Local climate

Manor House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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