Old Manor Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Old Manor Cottage
- WRENN ID
- far-jade-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Old Manor Cottage, Winterbourne Steepleton, DT2 9LG
- OS grid reference
- SY 628 898
- Coordinates
- 50.70668, -2.52811
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Manor Cottage is a farmhouse that has been converted into a private dwelling. It dates from the late 16th century, with an addition made in the 17th century. The building features coursed rubble-stone walls with Ham Stone dressings and a thatched roof with gable ends and stone gable copings. There are brick stacks at the left-hand gable and a ridge stack located to the right of center, both of which are from the 17th or 18th century, while the right-hand gable stack was rebuilt in the 20th century.
The layout consists of a three-unit house with a rear range set at right angles from the center, accessible through a cross-passage. The cottage has two storeys and four windows, which include four-light hollow-chamfered mullions with iron casements and rectangular leaded lights, each with separate labels above. There are also three-light stone mullions with labels above, two of which are located at the left-hand end. The original doorway is situated to the right of center, featuring moulded stone jambs and a depressed-arch head, with a 20th-century plank door. An inserted doorway to the left of center has similar moulded jambs and head, also with a label above, and a 20th-century plank door. The rear range is gabled to the south and matches the height of the ridge, featuring three- and two-light stone mullions with labels above, dating from the 16th century. There is a doorway in the west angle connecting to the main range, which has a 20th-century plank and glazed door.
Inside, the central room has a compartmented ceiling with beams and an open fireplace. There is a newel stair located in the south-west corner of the kitchen.
Local climate
Old Manor Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
- 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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