Old Manor Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1952. Farmhouse.
Old Manor Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- swift-column-alder
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1952
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Old Manor Farmhouse, Leigh Road, Wimborne Minster
- OS grid reference
- SZ 021 999
- Coordinates
- 50.79915, -1.97046
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Manor Farmhouse is a building with origins in the 16th century, which has been altered and partially rebuilt in the 17th century, and enlarged in the 18th and 19th centuries. It features brick walls with stone details, while the north gable is timber framed. The roof is tiled with stone eaves courses, and there are brick stacks with oversailing courses. The original layout has a three-room lobby entrance plan, with the entrance located opposite the stack between the parlour and hall, and service rooms to the north of the hall.
At the rear, there is an 18th-century kitchen wing adjacent to the service rooms. Along the north walls of the kitchen and service rooms, there are single-storey, slate-roofed lean-tos from the 19th century. In the early 19th century, the central stack was altered, and a semi-circular stair was added in the entrance lobby. A passage was also created at the north end of the hall, leading from a new door in the main (east) front to the kitchen at the back. During this time, the service rooms were modified, and a second stair was added.
The main elevation features a classical-style entrance door in its original position. The parlour and hall each have an ovolo-section stone mullioned window, originally with five lights but reduced to four. There is a later timber casement window in the service room, along with a later door nearby. First-floor windows are similar, but those in the solar and hall chamber have always had four lights. The front elevation displays a diaper pattern in the brickwork. The 18th-century kitchen wing has timber casement windows. Inside, there are some chamfered ceiling beams and a notable early 19th-century semi-circular stair. This building is an early example of brickwork in the area and was originally moated, with part of the moat still surviving.
Local climate
Old Manor Farmhouse receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% 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 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% 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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