Old Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Manor house.
Old Manor House
- WRENN ID
- ancient-wicket-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Manor house
- Address
- Old Manor House, Compton Valence
- OS grid reference
- SY 592 932
- Coordinates
- 50.73778, -2.57834
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Manor House is a manor house with attached cottages at both ends, dating from the early 17th century. It underwent changes in the 19th century, including refenestration, and was restored in the 20th century. The building features dressed stone and flint walls that are banded, with window dressings made of Lias stone. It has a slate roof with gable ends and brick stacks located to the left of center and at the right gable.
The house is two storeys high with attics and has a central porch with a hipped roof. On the left side, there is an 18th-century bay that contains 2-light wooden casements with glazing bars and segmental brick arches above. The house has three 17th-century windows that are 3-light stone-mullions with iron casements and lead lights, each with separate labels above. The ground floor features 3-light windows, while the first floor has 5-light, 3-light, 2-light, and 4-light windows. The porch doorway has a depressed-arch head with chamfered jambs and a separate label above. The outer door is a 20th-century plank door, while the inner door is a 20th-century plank-and-muntin door.
Inside, the house has ceiling beams with moulded chamfers and a large mantelshelf in the left room. Flagstone floors are present throughout. The rear wing contains remnants of a stone fireplace, which has been altered at the left end, and a smaller fireplace that has been inserted beside it, taken from upstairs. A staircase that was mentioned in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments is no longer present. There is a cellar under the rear wing lined with chalk blocks.
Local climate
Old Manor House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% 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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