Summerhouse, Immediately East of Manfield Orthopaedic Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1992. Summerhouse.
Summerhouse, Immediately East of Manfield Orthopaedic Hospital
- WRENN ID
- still-quartz-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Northampton North MP: Lucy Rigby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1992
- Type
- Summerhouse
- Address
- Summerhouse, Immediately East of Manfield Orthopaedic Hospital, Kettering Road, Northampton
- OS grid reference
- SP 778 636
- Coordinates
- 52.2658, -0.8612
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The summerhouse, located immediately east of Manfield Orthopaedic Hospital, was built around 1899-1902 by Charles Dorman for James Manfield, a shoe manufacturer from Northampton. It is a small, single-storey rectangular building constructed of timber on a dressed ironstone plinth, with a dressed ironstone rear wall. The roof is hipped and covered with stone tiles, featuring projecting rafter ends under deep eaves.
The front façade is distinguished by Tuscan columns and strapwork motifs on the risers, flanking three-light windows with glazing bars. In the center, there is a narrower doorway topped by a small gable, which includes barge-boards, a finial, and panelled and glazed double doors. These doors are accessed by a flight of stone steps. The right-hand side (southeast) is similar but consists of only two bays. The rear has a blind wall, while the northwest side is attached to a garden wall. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Summerhouse, Immediately East of Manfield Orthopaedic Hospital sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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