Manor Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. House. 4 related planning applications.
Manor Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silent-tracery-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Manor Farm Cottage, Fifehead Hill, Fifehead Magdalen, SP8 5RR
- OS grid reference
- ST 774 211
- Coordinates
- 50.98947, -2.3221
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor Farm Cottage is a 17th-century house located in Fifehead Magdalen, near Fifehead Hill. It is constructed of rubble walls and has a thatched roof with brick stacks at each end. The house is two storeys high with attics and has a three-window front. It features iron casement windows, some with two and others with three lights, all with leaded glass. The windows have wooden lintels. A part-glazed wooden plank door dates from the 19th or 20th century. The interior includes an open fireplace with a cambered and chamfered bressummer, and a room with a chamfered beam featuring moulded stops and chamfered wall plates.
Local climate
Manor Farm Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 2 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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