The Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 May 1952. Manor house.

The Manor House

WRENN ID
winding-pilaster-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 May 1952
Type
Manor house
Address
The Manor House, Front Street, Sowerby
OS grid reference
SE 432 813
Coordinates
54.22597, -1.3383
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Manor House is an early 19th-century building constructed of brown brick. It features a band at the first floor cill level and has a hipped stone slate roof. The house is two storeys high and has three bays. The central entrance includes a panelled door topped with an oblong fanlight, framed by a heavy wooden doorcase with brackets and a flat hood. The ground floor openings are set within round-headed recesses, and there are 16-pane sash windows. The larger ground floor windows have architraves and cills, while the upper windows are set back.

Local climate

The Manor House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% 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 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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