The Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1960. House. 1 related planning application.
The Manor House
- WRENN ID
- dark-fireplace-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 1960
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Manor House, Church Lane, Fovant, SP3 5LA
- OS grid reference
- ST 996 293
- Coordinates
- 51.06365, -2.00602
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Manor House is a detached house dated to the 17th century, with alterations made in the mid- and late-19th century. It is constructed of dressed limestone with a thatched roof, gable-end brick stacks, and coped verges. The house is two storeys and has an attic, with a three-window front. A central 4-panelled door is set within a 19th-century porch featuring a castellated parapet. Flanking the door are 16-pane tripartite sash windows. The first floor has a central 16-pane sash flanked by tripartite sashes. Three dormers light the attic space, each containing a 2-light or single-light casement window.
To the right of the main body of the house is a single-storey range with a 5-light casement window on the ground floor and a large eyebrow attic dormer featuring a 5-light casement. The roof of this range is hipped to the right. The right return has a 3-light casement window on the ground floor. The left return is rendered and features French windows to the left, alongside a 2-light and a single-light casement window. Elaborate lead rainwater goods are present, including a hopper bearing the Royal Arms and the initials VR with a rampant lion and unicorn, likely erected in 1837 to coincide with the Coronation and alongside a rear parallel range.
The rear range has three 12-pane sashes to the ground floor and three 2-light casements to the first floor, all under a slate roof. A late-19th century single-storey brick service extension, built with a cavity wall and featuring a planked door and sash windows, is attached to the rear left.
The interior includes an open fireplace with a cambered lintel on stone jambs and chamfered beams. The attic contains planked doors.
Local climate
The Manor House 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 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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 — 3 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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