Manor Farm House is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1986. Farmhouse.
Manor Farm House
- WRENN ID
- worn-cobalt-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Harpenden and Berkhamsted MP: Victoria Collins (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Manor Farm House, Church Lane, Tring Rural
- OS grid reference
- SP 886 148
- Coordinates
- 51.82553, -0.71531
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor Farm House is a farmhouse that has been converted into a private residence. It dates from the late 16th century and was altered in the 17th century, with brick casing added in the 19th century. The building features a timber frame encased in buff brick and has steep tiled roofs. It is a long, low, two-storey house that faces west and is set back from the road.
A south crosswing projects only to the rear, and its roof has been altered to match the main range. There is a lean-to 17th-century framed staircase tower at the angle with the wing. At the northern end of the rear wall, there is a lower gabled extension that contains a service stair and a dairy. The west front has a regular arrangement with three windows on each floor and a door located between the first and second windows from the south. The windows are horizontally sliding casement windows, with three lights on the first floor and two ground floor windows featuring four lights. The 19th-century plank door has a heavy frame.
Inside, there is a through passage leading to the stair at the rear. The northern room is large and features chamfered and mason-mitred crossed beams with scroll stops, a tiled floor, and a large fireplace in the northern gable with seats. A 15th-century roll-moulded post has been re-used as a beam in the rear part of the south crosswing, which contains two rooms on the ground floor with internal chimneys on the south wall. The upper floor is ceiled under a wide side-purlin roof structure with exposed tie-beams and queen-struts at the northern gable, as well as a heavy middle tie-beam exposed in the southern bedroom. The timber frame is also exposed on both floors in the rear wall, featuring jowled posts.
Local climate
Manor Farm House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% 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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