Manor Farmhouse with Forecourt Railings and Gates is a Grade II listed building in the Trafford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 March 1959. Farmhouse.
Manor Farmhouse with Forecourt Railings and Gates
- WRENN ID
- fading-bronze-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Trafford
- Constituency
- Altrincham and Sale West MP: Mr Connor Rand (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 March 1959
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Manor Farmhouse with Forecourt Railings and Gates, Station Road, Dunham Massey
- OS grid reference
- SJ 725 879
- Coordinates
- 53.38805, -2.41459
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor Farmhouse is a farmhouse built as a Dower House by the 2nd Earl of Warrington in the mid 18th century. It is constructed of Flemish and English garden wall bond brick, topped with graduated slate and stone slate roofs. The building has a double-depth central-staircase plan with three bays and three storeys, featuring a three-storey brewery wing on the left and a porch at the rear.
The farmhouse has a stone plinth and a recessed porch with a semi-elliptical brick arch, a six-panel door with an overlight, and stone steps with iron handrails. On the ground floor, there are two 12-pane sash windows, while the first floor has three 15-pane sash windows, all with flat brick arches and stone sills. The second floor features three casement windows with glazing bars. A coped gablet with kneelers is located over the central bay, which includes a clock face in a brick surround. The building has gable stacks and coped gables with kneelers, and a similar gablet at the rear, where all windows are casements with segmental brick arched heads. The rear ground floor and wing have two and three-light double-chamfered stone mullion windows, and the wing has a hipped roof.
The garden forecourt is well-maintained, featuring enriched wrought ironwork double gates and railings, along with rusticated stone piers. Inside, there is a notable staircase with turned spindle balusters and a deep handrail, as well as a panelled room with fluted pilasters and ovolo-moulded beams.
Local climate
Manor Farmhouse with Forecourt Railings and Gates sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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