The Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. House, former farmhouse.
The Manor House
- WRENN ID
- strange-spire-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House, former farmhouse
- Address
- The Manor House, High Street, Yardley Hastings
- OS grid reference
- SP 866 570
- Coordinates
- 52.20529, -0.73368
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Manor House is a house that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from the 17th century and extended around 1840, with medieval origins. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with limestone dressings and features a plain-tile roof with stone end stacks. The building has a double-depth plan and stands two storeys high with an attic, presenting a three-window range.
The central 19th-century door is topped with a four-centred chamfered stone head, which includes carved spandrels and a hood mould. The ground and first floors are adorned with three-light chamfered stone mullion windows, except for a two-light window at the centre of the first floor. The outer bays have gables, each featuring one-light windows with chamfered stone surrounds. The stone-coped gables are supported by kneelers.
At the rear, there is a two-storey parallel range with single-storey lean-to extensions. This building incorporates the 14th-century kitchen from the adjacent Hastings Manor House. Originally a detached, approximately square, two-storey structure located at the center of the rear range, it has a large end stack and stone-coped gables with kneelers. Remnants of central windows can still be seen at high levels on two sides. The Manor House is an important and rare example of a medieval detached domestic kitchen and is part of a group with the Court Parlour and the Church of St. Andrew.
Local climate
The Manor House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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