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

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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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  • 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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