Manor Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1976. Farmhouse.
Manor Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lost-chamber-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1976
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Manor Farmhouse, Rating Lane, Barrow-In-Furness, LA13 0NZ
- OS grid reference
- SD 214 715
- Coordinates
- 54.13385, -3.20325
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor Farmhouse is a farmhouse built around 1845, constructed from coursed, dressed red sandstone with a slate roof. It has an irregular plan, featuring two storeys and an attic, along with a much lower two-storey wing on the east side. The entrance front facing Manor Road has four bays and two of these are prominent.
The second bay includes a two-storey porch with buttresses flanking a pointed arch under a drip mould. Below an embattled parapet, there is a single-light window. The third bay is gabled and features transomed wooden casements set in chamfered ashlar surrounds with projecting sills, including a four-light window beneath a three-light window and a single-light attic window.
To the right, set back, is another gable with a projecting stack and a cross-window. The stack has a slit window on the first floor. The first bay, which is set back from the porch, has a buttress to the left of a tall casement and a small first-floor window in a gabled half dormer. The gable copings are roll-moulded, and multi-flue stacks rise from the main ridge above the porch and the third bay, while the fourth bay has a lateral stack with three flues.
On the left side, the fenestration mirrors that of the front third bay. The two-storey wing features a shallow gabled projection with paired sash windows beneath a cross window, along with a small cross window on the right and another above in a gabled half dormer. The front and right end gables have ashlar copings, and there is a central ridge stack.
The farmhouse is marked as New Manor House on the 1851 Ordnance Survey map, indicating that the farm likely relocated to this site during the construction of the Furness Railway.
Local climate
Manor Farmhouse sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,670 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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