Manor Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. Farmhouse. 9 related planning applications.
Manor Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- still-gable-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Corby and East Northamptonshire MP: Lee Barron (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Manor Farmhouse, High Street, Gretton, NN17 3DE
- OS grid reference
- SP 900 944
- Coordinates
- 52.54059, -0.67353
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse, with a datestone of 1675. It is constructed of squared coursed and banded limestone and ironstone, with a Collyweston slate roof. The building has an L-shaped plan.
The main front elevation, which runs parallel to the road, has three windows at ground floor. A two-light stone mullion window, with drip moulds, is centrally placed, flanked by 20th-century casements. Above are similar two-light stone mullion windows. There is a chamfered plinth and long limestone quoins. The gables have ashlar parapets, kneelers, ball finials, and an ashlar stack with moulded cornices at the ridge. A roundel with a tablet above displays the date 1675. The gable to the right features a single three-light stone mullion window on each floor, all with dripmoulds; the attic window has leaded lights. A tablet in the gable apex is inscribed "W/WL/75". The gable to the left has a three-light stone mullion window on the ground floor, with a drip mould, and a similar two-light window in the attic. One light of the attic window is blocked, the other has leaded lights; the top corners of the window surround have ears with lattice decoration. Two three-stage buttresses flank these windows and are likely from the 19th century.
A rear wing to the right of the main front has a one-window range window with a three-light stone mullion window, with a drip mould to the first floor. A 19th-century panelled door is centrally placed, flanked by single-light windows, one with a stone surround to the left. A six-panel door to the far right has a four-centred moulded stone head. The rear elevation to the left has two windows at ground floor, with drip moulds; the window to the left is probably late 17th century. There is a single, similar two-light first floor window, part with a leaded light. The rear gable has a single two-light stone mullion window, also part with leaded lights, topped by an ashlar stack. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Manor Farmhouse 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 9 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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