The Little Manor is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1952. Manor.

The Little Manor

WRENN ID
unlit-jade-reed
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 June 1952
Type
Manor
Address
The Little Manor, 389, High Street, Swanage
OS grid reference
SZ 015 789
Coordinates
50.61006, -1.97962
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Little Manor is a 19th-century building located on the south side of High Street. It features walls made of Purbeck Stone and a hipped roof also of Purbeck Stone, with stone stacks that have oversailing caps. The building has three storeys, with a central doorway that has a semi-circular head and a six-panel raised panel door. On the ground floor, there are two double-hung sash windows, while the first and second floors each have three double-hung sash windows. The entrance is marked by octagonal stone gate piers with pyramidal caps, complemented by ornamental iron railings.

Local climate

The Little Manor receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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