The Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 November 1962. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Manor House
- WRENN ID
- deep-chimney-sedge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 November 1962
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Manor House, High Street, Semington, BA14 6JR
- OS grid reference
- ST 898 606
- Coordinates
- 51.34525, -2.14778
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Manor House is a detached house dating largely to 1698, as indicated by a datestone. It is constructed of coursed rubble stone with a stone slate roof, featuring coped verges and gable end brick stacks. The building follows an L-shaped plan and has six windows on its front facade. A gabled stone porch is situated to the left of the centre, with a moulded, square-headed doorway, a saddleback coped verge, an inner planked door, and two-light recessed cyma-mullioned casements on either side. A 28-pane fixed shop window is also present. A string course runs along the first floor, above which are six two-light mullioned casements, and a cavetto-moulded stone eaves cornice. A single-storey rubble stone extension sits to the left return. A rear gabled wing extends to the left, and the first floor of the main range features two-light casements. A lean-to at the rear of the right portion of the house has a three-light casement.
Inside, the drawing room to the right of the entrance has a notable bolection-moulded stone fireplace surround with fielded stone panels to the curved fire back. It also includes a chamfered beam and cupboards with fielded panel doors. The entrance hall retains full panelling, moulded ceiling beams, a closed string staircase with twisted balusters, a wide moulded handrail, and square newels set against the rear wall, although some parts may be reset. The former kitchen, located to the left, contains an open fireplace with a chamfered lintel on stone jambs.
Local climate
The Manor House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 9 transactions since 1996
- 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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