Sundial, Attached Walls and Outbuilding Approximately 20 Metres South West of Manor Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 May 1967. Sundial, outbuilding.

Sundial, Attached Walls and Outbuilding Approximately 20 Metres South West of Manor Farmhouse

WRENN ID
grim-span-solstice
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Northamptonshire
Constituency
Corby and East Northamptonshire MP: Lee Barron (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 May 1967
Type
Sundial, outbuilding
OS grid reference
SK 994 029
Coordinates
52.61496, -0.53229
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The sundial, attached walls, and outbuilding located approximately 20 metres southwest of Manor Farmhouse are likely from the late 17th century, with the sundial itself dating to the 18th century. The structure is made of squared coursed limestone, featuring an ashlar facade for the sundial and a Collyweston slate roof for the outbuilding. The sundial is set in an elliptically arched recess in the wall, displaying Roman numerals that follow the springing line, with a small moulded cornice above the numerals and another cornice above the arch. The attached walls create three sides of what was once a kitchen garden. There is a square-headed doorway in the east wall spur with a moulded stone surround. The outbuilding in the southwest corner may have served as a summerhouse, featuring a square-headed doorway with a chamfered stone surround and an oval window with a stone surround. The east wall extends southward to a cottage in Hall Yarn, which is not included in this listing. These walls may have originally been part of the kitchen garden for a house built on the site of Collyweston Palace, which was home to Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond, before it was dismantled around 1640. A new house was constructed on the site by the Tryon family, likely in the mid to late 17th century.

Local climate

Sundial, Attached Walls and Outbuilding Approximately 20 Metres South West of 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 84% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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