Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 1987. Farmhouse.
Manor House
- WRENN ID
- keen-glass-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 December 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Manor House, Main Street, Abthorpe
- OS grid reference
- SP 647 465
- Coordinates
- 52.11354, -1.05596
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor House is a farmhouse dated 1638 that was restored in the 20th century. It is built from coursed squared limestone with ironstone dressings and features a slate roof with stone ridge stacks. The building is designed in an L-shape and has two storeys plus an attic.
To the left of the main range, there is a 20th-century door set in a moulded stone surround with a segmental head. A hood mould extends over one-light windows on either side of the angle between the main range and the projecting wings, which have double-chamfered stone surrounds. On the ground floor to the right, there is a three-light stone mullion window with a hood mould, and above the door, there is a similar two-light window.
The projecting wing to the left features a one-light window on the ground floor near the inner angle, which has a moulded stone surround and lintel inscribed with "DAIRY." There is also a small window on the first floor near the gable with a chamfered stone surround. The gable end of this wing has three-light stone mullion windows with hood moulds on the ground, first, and attic floors, some of which have been partly renewed.
A Phoenix fire insurance plaque is located in the gable just below a re-cut datestone inscribed "1638/IKM." The stone-coped gables are supported by kneelers. Inside, the house features stop-chamfered spine beams and an open fireplace with stone jambs and a timber four-centred arched head.
Local climate
Manor House 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% 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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