Gurston Manor is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1960. House. 2 related planning applications.

Gurston Manor

WRENN ID
riven-loggia-ivory
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 March 1960
Type
House
Address
Gurston Manor, High Lane, Broad Chalke, SP5 5HP
OS grid reference
SU 026 251
Coordinates
51.02561, -1.96402
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gurston Manor is a detached house dating from around 1600, with alterations made in the late 17th century, 19th century, and the 1970s. The building features a chequered flint and limestone exterior, topped with a tiled roof and four diagonally-set brick stacks. It is designed in an L-plan with a cross range at the west end and has two storeys plus an attic. The south front has three windows.

To the right, there is a 20th-century door and a two-light casement window in a 19th-century extension, while to the left, a doorway has been blocked. The house displays three-light and four-light mullioned and transomed casements with hoodmoulds, all featuring ovolo-moulding. On the first floor, there are four-light and three-light ovolo-mullioned casements, along with a two-light casement in the 19th-century extension. The attic gable of the cross wing has a three-light ovolo-mullioned casement with a hoodmould, and there is a small decapitated statue set into the wall below the eaves to the right.

The left side of the house includes a 20th-century flat-roofed conservatory and a three-light ovolo-mullioned casement with a hoodmould to the left. The first floor features two-light and four-light mullioned casements, and the cross wing has coped verges with saddlestones. At the rear, there is a blocked three-light mullioned casement on the ground floor and a three-light mullioned casement on the first floor of the cross wing. A 20th-century single-storey extension is attached to the left side of the rear, which connects to a 19th-century parallel rear wing that has segmental-headed two-light casements.

Inside, the study has an open fireplace with a chamfered lintel on chamfered stone jambs, while the drawing room features a Tudor arched moulded stone fireplace. The remainder of the interior has been altered. The manor was associated with Kings College, Cambridge, and the facade of the house is clearly depicted on a map from 1656, a copy of which hangs in the house.

Local climate

Gurston Manor receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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