The Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 June 1953. Manor house. 2 related planning applications.

The Manor House

WRENN ID
errant-lantern-martin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 June 1953
Type
Manor house
Address
The Manor House, Rampisham, DT2 0PT
OS grid reference
ST 561 022
Coordinates
50.81824, -2.62348
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Manor House is a manor house dating from the early 17th century, with internal remodelling in the late 19th century and early 20th-century additions on the east and north-west sides. It features rubble-stone and dressed stone walls with ashlar quoins, and has hipped roofs made of Roman tiles. The building has stone and brick stacks on the south ridge and a brick stack on the north-west wing. It stands two storeys tall with attics.

The entrance front has three windows, followed by a two-storey gabled porch located left of centre. The windows are mainly of the mullion-and-transom type, typically with four lights, and have separate labels above the ground floor windows. The iron casements are leaded. The porch entrance features a depressed-arch head with a separate label above it, leading to a plank door inside. The south elevation has five windows of the same mullion-and-transom style, with two-light windows above. There are 20th-century dormers added to both the north and south elevations. A depressed-arch doorway is centrally located on this wall, also with a separate label above. High on this wall is a small round dial dated 1608.

The interior has been completely remodelled in the late 19th century. The south-west room contains an overmantel made from 17th-century fragments of a former screen, as mentioned in Hutchins, featuring a frieze with fruit and swags. Similar fragments are found in the north-east room. Both rooms have panelled 17th-century doors with elaborate decorations above the doorways and scrolled cresting. Additionally, a fragment of early 16th-century glass featuring a red rose and several 14th-century slip-tiles, including shields of arms of Bryan, were discovered near the house.

Local climate

The Manor House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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