Old Manor House is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1961. A Post-Medieval Manor house. 1 related planning application.
Old Manor House
- WRENN ID
- lost-spire-wren
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1961
- Type
- Manor house
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- Old Manor House, 19, High Street, Axbridge, BS26 2AF
- OS grid reference
- ST 430 545
- Coordinates
- 51.28724, -2.81863
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Manor House is a manor house dating from the early 17th century, which was refronted around 1804. The building is rendered and features emphasized quoins, a small central stone date plaque with an illegible inscription, and a parapet with plain coping. It has a hipped slate roof with a single brick stack visible from the street and a small central square cupola topped with an ogee "fish scale" slate roof. The walls are adorned with similar slate hangings, and there are 3-light casements with leaded lights and stained glass on each side. The roof is capped with a ball finial and a wind-vane dated 1752.
The house has three storeys and a three-bay frontage, featuring 12-pane sash windows that are flush mounted with stepped voussoirs. To the left of the facade is a door opening that contains a massive framed and studded door in a moulded surround, which is stopped to the base and has carved brackets (though the outer ends are broken off and the hood is missing). Decorative carved wood is attached to the lintel. Inside, there is an inner lobby leading to another door opening with a 6-panelled door flanked by pilasters and a fanlight with radiating glazing bars.
The front room on the first floor boasts a fine late 17th-century plaster ceiling with a pendant and incorporates early 19th-century painted decoration. The front ground floor room also features similar early 19th-century decoration. A late 17th-century dog-leg staircase is present, along with some 17th-century doors and door surrounds on the first floor, as well as other minor features from the same period, including Victorian wallpaper on the first floor.
Local climate
Old Manor House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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