Manor Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Manor Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- gentle-panel-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Manor Farmhouse, Dunstable Road (A5), Markyate, AL3 8QL
- OS grid reference
- TL 056 169
- Coordinates
- 51.84099, -0.46755
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor Farmhouse is an 18th-century farmhouse incorporating earlier elements in the long rear wing. It is constructed of sandy red brick, with a chequered pattern on the west front using red brick and grey headers. The roof is steeply pitched, covered with old red tiles, and hipped on the front block. A catslide roof extension covers a later porch in the rear angle.
The house is rectangular, two storeys high with a cellar and attics, facing east. It has a symmetrical east front, three windows wide, with a central door. A plinth and dentil eaves band are present. Tall sash windows with 6/6 panes and flat gauged arches are on both floors. The front door consists of six panels, the top two glazed, two fielded, and the bottom flush beaded, and is set within a wooden doorcase with panelled reveals, reeded pilasters, an open triangular pediment, and ornamental cresting above. The ends have a similar central window, set within a segmental arch, on each floor. A box dormer is visible on the roof slope, and the north end has steps leading down to a cellar entrance below an early 19th-century canted bay window with a triple sash window on the ground floor.
The rear range faces the yard to the north, with three 3-light casement windows on the first floor, a door between the first and second windows from the west end, and 4-, 2-, 3-, and 2-light casement windows under cambered arches running from east to west. A large chimney is situated where the two wings meet, and another projects from the rear wall of the south part of the front block. The west room in the rear range retains its open roof with a gable chimney and a stone sink complete with a hand pump. A high-level door suggests the adjoining room on the first floor was intended to accommodate farm staff separately from the household. Interior features include two moulded plank doors and two 18th-century six-panel doors on the first floor. The front block has an attic space with a three-bay roof structure featuring vertical queen-posts. A staircase rises the full height, with a cut string, ornamented tread ends, stick balusters, turned newels, and a moulded rail.
Local climate
Manor Farmhouse 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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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