Manor Farmhouse Including Front Gate Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1955. Farmhouse.
Manor Farmhouse Including Front Gate Piers
- WRENN ID
- former-trefoil-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1955
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Manor Farmhouse Including Front Gate Piers, Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge
- OS grid reference
- ST 971 170
- Coordinates
- 50.95246, -2.04255
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor Farmhouse, including the front gate piers, is an early 18th-century farmhouse located in Sixpenny Handley. It is constructed of chequerwork flint and squared rubble, topped with a tiled roof that has stone slate margins and end stone copings. The building features projecting chimney breasts with triplets of diagonally set square brick flues. It stands two storeys high with attics and has a symmetrical five-window range, showcasing 12-pane sash windows with stone lintels that bear keystones. The central entrance has a panelled doorway with a segmental hood above it. There are three gabled dormers, each with 2-light casements that include glazing bars.
Inside, the farmhouse features a staircase with cut strings and turned balusters. The front gate piers are made of ashlar and have moulded caps topped with ball finials.
Local climate
Manor Farmhouse Including Front Gate Piers receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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