Manor House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1959. A C16 Farmhouse.

Manor House Farmhouse

WRENN ID
keen-beam-swallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 April 1959
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Manor House Farmhouse, Stephen's Hill, Long Sutton
OS grid reference
ST 468 260
Coordinates
51.03134, -2.75932
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Manor House Farmhouse is a detached farmhouse with origins dating back to the 16th century, featuring later work from the 18th and 19th centuries. It is constructed from local lias stone, rendered on the front elevation, with Ham stone dressings. The roof is covered with artificial stone slates and has stepped coped gables, along with rendered chimney stacks. The building has a 'T'-plan layout and stands two storeys tall with three bays.

The farmhouse has a rubble plinth and an ashlar band course at the cornice level, with a low plain parapet on the south elevation. It features 16-pane sash windows set in plain ashlar surrounds with small keystones. In the lower bay two, there is a part-glazed door topped by a diamond-glazed rectangular fanlight, which is sheltered by an open stone porch of non-classical design. There are also 20th-century flat-roofed dormer windows located behind the parapet on the outer bays.

On the west gable, there is a wing wall that leads to a segmental arched keystoned doorway. At the rear, there is an 18th-century stone extension with a clay tile roof. Although the interior has not been seen, it is reported to contain remnants of a former timber frame and moulded ceiling beams in the hall. Additionally, there is a large Ham-stone fireplace in the west gable, accompanied by a mullioned window. The roof appears to have been raised in the 19th century.

Manor House Farmhouse is part of Sutton Horsey Manor and was in existence by 1695, possibly as early as 1568. It may have sustained damage from the King's troops in 1685.

Local climate

Manor House Farmhouse 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 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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