Manor House is a Grade I listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. A Tudor Manor house.

Manor House

WRENN ID
gaunt-stone-lichen
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 July 1955
Type
Manor house
Period
Tudor
Address
Manor House, Winterborne Clenston
OS grid reference
ST 838 031
Coordinates
50.82747, -2.23035
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Manor House is an early 16th-century building with additions from the 17th century, located in Winterborne Clenston. It features a combination of banded flint, ashlar, and rubble, with ashlar dressings. The stone-slate roofs are complemented by brick end stacks and stacks at the ends of the original range. A projecting chimney breast made of flint and ashlar is located on the right side of the house. The structure has two to three storeys and consists of seven bays, with the original facade being approximately symmetrical, while the 17th-century addition is on the left.

The windows are stone-mullioned, with three and four lights, and have moulded labels with head stops. The upper floor windows of the 16th-century section feature four-centred heads. Central to the early range is a two-storey octagonal stair turret and porch, which is corbelled out with a series of mouldings to a square plan at the eaves level and topped with a gable. The main doorway in the side of the tower has a moulded, four-centred head with continuous jambs.

Inside, the original 16th-century roof consists of ten collar-beam trusses with cambered collars, chamfered arch-braces, and cusped wind-bracing. The original range also features a coffered ceiling with moulded, intersecting beams, some original fireplaces, and 17th-century panelling and doors.

Local climate

Manor House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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