Manor Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1951. Farmhouse.
Manor Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings
- WRENN ID
- fallow-tin-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1951
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Manor Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings, Main Street, Alderton
- OS grid reference
- SP 740 467
- Coordinates
- 52.11423, -0.91982
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor Farmhouse and attached outbuildings is a farmhouse dated 1695, with 19th century alterations and additions. It is constructed from coursed squared limestone with ironstone dressings, topped with an old plain-tile roof and stone end stacks. The building has two storeys and an attic, arranged in a T-plan with a three-window range. The main front faces the road and features a central panelled and part-glazed door, likely added in the mid-19th century, which has coloured glass margin glazing, a wood lintel, and a straight hood on brackets supported by posts. Above this door are horizontal oval windows on the first floor, framed by keyed stone surrounds. The ground floor windows are flanked by stone lintels with keyblocks that do not appear to correspond to any windows. There are 16-pane sash windows on both the ground and first floors on the left and right, with stone lintels and keyblocks on the ground floor and wood lintels on the first. The building has raised ironstone quoins and stone-coped gables with kneelers.
At the rear, there is a wing with a blocked door on the left side, above which is a datestone of ironstone inscribed with "H/JJ.1695" and a Tudor rose. This original two-storey, one-window wing has a hipped roof dormer and a two-storey, two-window extension that leads to the outbuildings, which include a three-bay cartshed open to the yard on timber posts.
Inside, the farmhouse features ogee-stop-chamfered spine beams, an open fireplace with a cambered chamfered bressumer that has ogee stops, and a fine open-well staircase leading from the ground floor to the attic, with twisted balusters on bulbous feet. The first-floor rooms have bolection-moulded wood chimneypieces with late 19th century tiled grates, and there is a stone cellar.
Local climate
Manor Farmhouse and Attached Outbuildings 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 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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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