The Manse is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1988. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Manse
- WRENN ID
- tall-loggia-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Manse, Boar Street, Mere, BA12 6DD
- OS grid reference
- ST 813 323
- Coordinates
- 51.09023, -2.26781
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Manse is a late 18th or early 19th century house situated on a street corner. The front and left gable are finished with scribed cement rendering, while the back and right gable are limestone rubble. It has a Welsh slate roof. The building has a long, narrow plan, running back to Balcony Cottage on The Square.
The house is two storeys and an attic, with four windows to the front. These windows are 12-pane sashes, each with a moulded architrave. The ground floor to the left has no window. A 6-panel part-glazed door sits between the second and third windows, sheltered by a flat stone hood with a moulded edge, supported by curved consoles. The left gable features 9-over-12-over-16-pane sashes, and a 19th-century panelled door is located on the left side. The right return has a small casement window to the attic, a 16-pane casement to a projecting section, a three-light casement window low down on the right, and a pair of 20th-century French doors. Coped gables are topped with late 20th-century brick stacks and late 19th-century terminals. It appears that The Manse once included part of what is now Balcony Cottage. The interior of the building has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Manse receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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