Tarrant Gunville Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1976. Manor house. 2 related planning applications.

Tarrant Gunville Manor House

WRENN ID
kindled-joist-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 December 1976
Type
Manor house
Address
Tarrant Gunville Manor House, DT11 8JP
OS grid reference
ST 924 126
Coordinates
50.91288, -2.10819
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Tarrant Gunville Manor House is a manor house built in the late 18th century for the Chapman family. It features colourwashed render and ashlar with a slate roof consisting of two parallel ranges and end rendered stacks. The building is symmetrical, standing three storeys high with five bays on the north side and seven bays on the south side. The windows are sashes with glazing bars, and the outer ground floor bays have Palladian windows supported by Tuscan columns. There is a central flat porch with Ionic columns.

Inside, the principal rooms include dadoes and fireplaces designed in the Adam style, and there is a marble chimney piece that is said to be by Flaxman. The house was once occupied by Josiah Wedgwood II.

Local climate

Tarrant Gunville Manor House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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