Chideock Manor with Attached Wall and Outbuildings on North Side is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. Manor house.
Chideock Manor with Attached Wall and Outbuildings on North Side
- WRENN ID
- tangled-flue-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1952
- Type
- Manor house
- OS grid reference
- SY 420 934
- Coordinates
- 50.73801, -2.82266
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chideock Manor is a manor house set in its own grounds, built around 1810 by an unknown architect. The structure features Lias stone and ashlar walls with fine jointing, along with a coursed rubble-stone plinth. It has two stone plat-bands and slate roofs, with rendered brick stacks at both ends of the parapets. The building is two storeys high and has four bays, with sash windows that include thin glazing bars and crown glass. The third bay features tripartite sashes, while the second bay has a square porch on both the ground and first floors. The front doorway is adorned with plain pilasters, Tuscan capitals, a moulded semi-circular head, and a projecting key, leading to a two-leaf front door with fielded panels and a large semi-circular fanlight with glazing bars above. There is a recessed panel over the doorway, and the parapet has been rebuilt in concrete.
The south elevation has a prominent segmental window bay, while the north elevation includes a round-headed side entrance with imposts and a projecting key. Inside, the manor features plaster cornices with running scrolls and rosettes on the soffit. The dining room contains an inserted 16th-century stone fireplace with a square lintel that has four panels bearing two blank shields, a Tudor rose, and a patera. The old kitchen also has a 16th-century stone fireplace with a Tudor arch beneath a straight head, featuring foliage spandrels and an unusual lintel framed with a rose at the center. The hall staircase boasts a plain mahogany handrail and a domed oval light above.
Attached to the manor is a brick wall built in Flemish bond around 1810, which incorporates two re-used 17th-century stone mullion windows. A 16th-century stone fireplace lintel, featuring a Tudor arch, has been repurposed as a door head. Additionally, there is a Beaters' Room at the north end, constructed in the early 19th century with brick walls and a slate roof. This polygonal room has two-light windows with elliptical heads and a doorway.
Local climate
Chideock Manor with Attached Wall and Outbuildings on North Side receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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