Manor Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. House. 1 related planning application.
Manor Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- muffled-mantel-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- Manor Farmhouse, Great Street, Norton Sub Hamdon, TA14 6SG
- OS grid reference
- ST 469 159
- Coordinates
- 50.94009, -2.7569
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor Farmhouse is a house located at the end of a row, with possible origins in the 16th century, and reshaped in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is constructed from near-ashlar Ham stone and features a plain clay tiled roof with bands of scallop tiles and stone slate base courses, topped with coped gables and stone chimney stacks. The building has two storeys and five bays.
The windows in bays one to three are hollow chamfered mullioned windows set in chamfered recesses; bay one has no upper window, while all are three-light except for the lower bay three on the right, which is two-light and has a stepped but continuous label below. To the left of bay four, there is a slightly projecting chimney stack with offsets leading to a single octagonal top with a moulded cap. Bays four and five feature reserve-chamfer mullioned windows of three lights, each with separate labels. To the left of bay three, there is a chamfered cambered-arched doorway with a studded boarded door.
On the east gable, there is a single-storey 19th-century angled bay window with a flat roof. The rear of the building has 20th-century extensions, but it also retains a moulded square-headed doorway and some transitional casements from the 18th century, which are ovolo moulded, with one featuring transoms. The interior has not been seen, but it is reported to have a three-room cross passage plan with little surviving detail, except for the west room, which includes wall panelling, moulded ceiling coving, and an angled corner fireplace. The roof trusses have side-lapped pegged collars and in-line tenoned purlins, with some evidence of reused timbers.
Local climate
Manor Farmhouse receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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