The Manor House is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 June 1953. A Medieval Manor house. 1 related planning application.
The Manor House
- WRENN ID
- north-bracket-umber
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 June 1953
- Type
- Manor house
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- The Manor House, Corscombe, DT8 3NU
- OS grid reference
- ST 517 014
- Coordinates
- 50.81092, -2.68663
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Manor House comprises a medieval rear range dating to around 1450, significantly altered, a 17th-century front range, and an 18th-century extension to the rear. The rear range has rubble-stone walls, some rendered, and an asbestos slate roof. It features diagonal buttresses with two set-offs at the south end wall, one internal, and the remains of a diagonal buttress at the north end. Two storeys are present. Renewed 2-light wooden casements are visible. A stone porch with a hipped stone slate roof sits in the angle between the medieval and 17th-century ranges, featuring a 4-centred arch with moulded jambs. The north end of this range has a stone fireplace approximately 6 feet wide and 5 feet high, with a square head and moulded jambs. An east wall contains a blocked pointed-arch doorhead with moulded jambs.
The 17th-century range has rubble-stone walls, a thatched roof, and stone gable copings. Brick stacks are located at the left-hand gable, to the right of centre, and at the right-hand gable. It has two storeys with attics and four windows. The windows contain 2-light hollow-chamfered stone mullions with separate labels and iron casements divided by glazing-bars. There is no door on the main range. A pentice-roofed extension is located to the right, constructed of rubble-stone with a slate roof.
The 18th-century rear range features hollow-chamfered stone mullions of 2 and 4 lights, with labels, and wood marginal glazing-bars to the windows.
Inside, the building contains stone flags and mid-chamfered ceiling-beams. A small 17th-century fireplace has a keyed wooden lintel and stone jambs.
Local climate
The Manor House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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