Manor Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Pair of cottages.

Manor Cottages

WRENN ID
outer-quartz-moth
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1956
Type
Pair of cottages
Address
Manor Cottages, 1 and 2, Dorchester Road, Burleston and Tolpuddle
OS grid reference
SY 793 944
Coordinates
50.74912, -2.2937
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Manor Cottages is a pair of semi-detached cottages, likely built in the 17th century. The left cottage, No. 1, features walls that are partly brick and partly plastered, resting on a base of stone with stone and flint banding. It has a half hipped thatched roof with one brick chimney stack in the center and another at the junction with No. 2. The cottages are one storey with an attic. No. 1 has a part glazed ledged door, two ground floor casements with a central horizontal bar, and two small plain casements. The attic includes three dormers, each with casements that also have a central horizontal bar.

No. 2 has walls that are part plastered, built on a brick, stone, and flint base, with an 18th-century extension made of brick and flint banding. It also has a thatched roof with a shared chimney stack at the left end. No. 2 features a part glazed ledged door, one ground floor casement with a central horizontal bar, and two small plain casements. The attic has two dormers with casements that have a central horizontal bar.

Local climate

Manor Cottages receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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