Worthy Manor is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1969. Manor house. 1 related planning application.
Worthy Manor
- WRENN ID
- seventh-zinc-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1969
- Type
- Manor house
- Address
- Worthy Manor, Porlock, Somerset, TA24 8PG
- OS grid reference
- SS 858 481
- Coordinates
- 51.22107, -3.63542
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Worthy Manor is a manor house dating from the 16th century, and possibly earlier. It has undergone extensive alterations, particularly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, possibly by C F A Voysey. The house is constructed of red sandstone, with random rubble and some roughcast rendering. It has a slate roof, hipped on the right side and extended as a catslide over the porch. Stone stacks rise from the eaves to the left of the porch, at the right gable end, and three stacks are present on the south-west return.
The building is two storeys and four bays. The windows are early 20th-century casements, mostly two-light, with a three-light window to the left of a projection next to a stack. A two-storey porch with a glazed opening to the left and a two-light casement at the end bay is present on the right. The ground floor features similar two- and three-light windows to the left of a cambered-head entrance to the porch, with a two-light casement to the right. A chamfered pointed arch door frame leads to a ribbed door. A three-bay left return has coped verges at the gable end.
The interior is reportedly characterised by plank and muntin screens, passage doorways with pointed arch wooden frames, chamfered beams with enriched stops, and an exposed collar beam roof. Historical references suggest information derived from previous listing records.
Local climate
Worthy Manor sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 — 1 transaction since 2022
- 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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