Manor Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1991. Cottage.

Manor Cottage

WRENN ID
long-floor-hawthorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 February 1991
Type
Cottage
Address
Manor Cottage, Barford Lane, Downton
OS grid reference
SU 180 216
Coordinates
50.99435, -1.74402
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Manor Cottage is a cottage dating from the mid to late 17th century, with alterations and additions made in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is timber-framed and faced in red brick, featuring lower courses in random bond and Flemish bond above. The roof is covered with plain tiles and has gabled and half-hipped ends, with end stacks that have brick shafts. The building has an L-shaped plan, consisting of a two-room front range, while the left-hand wing behind the right room appears to be of a different build, either constructed earlier or later and then faced in brick. There is an early 19th-century outshut behind the left room. The cottage is one storey with an attic and has two windows on the east front, featuring early 20th-century two and three-light casements, with attic windows in small hipped dormers above the eaves. The doorway is to the right and leads into a 20th-century conservatory-porch. A large 20th-century raking brick buttress is located at the center of the front. The roof at the rear extends down as a catslide over the brick outshut, and there is a lower rear wing with a half-hipped roof, which includes 20th-century metal-frame casements and a hipped dormer on the north side.

Inside, there is an exposed timber-framed partition between the two rooms in the front range, with a tie on a jowled wall-post at the back. Both rooms have thin chamfered beams with convex stops, with the left room featuring a large fireplace that has a chamfered timber lintel, where the chamfer runs into the jambs, and a brick-lined oven. The right-hand room has a simple 19th-century chimneypiece and a winder staircase in the rear corner against the partition. The rear wing contains a large chamfered axial beam with run-out stops, and the roof space is ceiled.

Local climate

Manor Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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