Manor Farm Barn is a Grade I listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. A Mid-C16 Barn. 2 related planning applications.
Manor Farm Barn
- WRENN ID
- shifting-plinth-sepia
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1955
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Manor Farm Barn, Winterborne Clenston, DT11 0NY
- OS grid reference
- ST 838 030
- Coordinates
- 50.82659, -2.23068
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor Farm Barn is a tithe barn built in the mid-16th century, featuring a reused roof from the late 15th century. It is constructed from banded knapped flint and stone, with ashlar dressings, and has weather boarded gabled ends on both the barn and porch roofs. The roof is covered in 19th-century tiles arranged in a chequerboard pattern.
The barn has a cruciform plan with six bays and off-centre, opposing porches. Its exterior includes a continuous chamfered stone plinth, and the bays are defined by two-stage, offset buttresses, with no buttresses at the corners. Each bay and the end walls feature chamfered rectangular ventilation slits with ashlar surrounds. The west wall has square window openings flanking the ventilation slit. The tall, off-centre porches have pitched roofs with weather-boarded gables. The threshing doors are set on oak jambs with cambered oak lintels. The south porch has square-headed doorways on either side, which have been blocked with 18th-century brickwork.
The interior, not inspected in 2017, features arch braces and wall pieces that rise from stone corbels to support plain mid-16th-century hammer beams. These hammer beams hold late 15th-century principal rafters connected by cambered collar beams, along with hammer posts, inclined struts, and arch braces to the collar. Small struts connect the collar to the principal rafters, and many trusses retain collar ties near the apex. Most structural members, including the principal rafters and purlins, are decorated with roll-mouldings, ogee-mouldings, and hollow-chamfers, while the secondary wind braces between the principal rafters and purlins are unmoulded. One truss towards the west end incorporates a mid-16th-century raised cruck. The internal walls are lined with clunch and feature brick and stone repairs.
Local climate
Manor Farm Barn 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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
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