Manor Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings is a Grade II* listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. A C18 Farmhouse.
Manor Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings
- WRENN ID
- frozen-rubblework-frost
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Kettering MP: Rosie Wrighting (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Manor Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings, Newton and Little Oakley
- OS grid reference
- SP 891 855
- Coordinates
- 52.46075, -0.68901
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor Farmhouse and attached outbuildings is a Grade II* listed farmhouse that consists of two buildings from the 16th century and is dated 1721. The structure is made of coursed squared limestone and features a Collyweston stone slate roof with coped gables and moulded stone ridge and end stacks. It has two storeys and a chamfered plinth. The central porch has a round-headed doorway with a hood-mould and a studded door. Above the porch are three-light stone mullioned windows with round-headed lights, and there are iron-framed gudgion-hung casement openings.
To the left, there is a projecting wing that has similar windows on both the ground and first floors, with the ground floor window being longer, possibly lengthened, and originally featuring a gable end stack. There is a lean-to structure between the porch and the wing. To the right of the porch is a range that was rebuilt in 1721, as indicated by a datestone in the gable end, which has three-light square-headed hollow-chamfered stone mullioned windows, with the ground floor windows being longer. Attached to the right is a low range of outbuildings. At the rear, there is an L-shaped wing, likely from the earlier 16th century, which has small one- and two-light stone mullioned windows with four-centred heads and a tiny reset cusped light.
Inside, the farmhouse has a cross-passage plan. The ground-floor room to the left of the cross-passage features a wide late 16th-century chamfered segmental fireplace that now incorporates a bolection moulded chimneypiece, which was brought in the 20th century from Boughton House, where it may have originally been intended for the "unfinished wing." The late 16th-century roof over this area is still intact, with a truss that is arch-braced to the tie, featuring queen struts to the collar and wind-bracing. A 16th-century moulded stone chimneypiece has recently been uncovered in the room above the porch. The original plan of the farmhouse has been obscured by later alterations.
Local climate
Manor Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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