Manor Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1951. A C15 House.
Manor Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-panel-soot
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Manor Farmhouse, Caundle Marsh
- OS grid reference
- ST 678 132
- Coordinates
- 50.91801, -2.45938
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor Farmhouse is a house that likely dates back to the 15th century, with a west wing from the 16th century, an east wing from the 17th century, and various alterations from the 19th century. The building features coursed rubble walls with ashlar dressings and has roofs that are tiled and stone-slated, ending in gables. There is an ashlar stack at the junction of the main range and the east wing. The house is two storeys high with attics and has an irregular arrangement of windows.
On the southern facade of the 16th-century wing, there are possibly original stone mullioned windows with four lights and four-centred heads on each floor. To the right of these windows is a doorway that has a chamfered four-centred head and a square label. Other stone mullioned windows are likely from the 17th or 19th centuries, alongside various 19th-century casements. The north doorway features chamfered jambs and a hollow chamfered segmental head.
The east wing contains a through passage that is not connected to the rest of the house, with doors that each have depressed four-centred heads. Inside, there is a 17th-century hall fireplace with chamfered jambs and a reset chamfered stone head, along with chamfered beams and a staircase that includes some 17th-century balusters and a moulded handrail. The house is believed to have originally functioned as a hall with a northeast cross passage, possibly including a service range beyond, and a potential upper end solar and undercroft. The solar and undercroft were replaced by the current range in the 16th century, while the service range was replaced in the 17th century, when a stack was also added in the former cross-passage.
Local climate
Manor Farmhouse 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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings