Old Manor is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1968. Manor house. 2 related planning applications.

Old Manor

WRENN ID
grey-bonework-acorn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 March 1968
Type
Manor house
Address
Old Manor, Beckington, BA11 2QG
OS grid reference
ST 827 522
Coordinates
51.26942, -2.24805
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Manor is a manor house dating from the early 17th century, with a refronting dated 1692. It is constructed of coursed rubble with ashlar quoins, featuring a moulded cornice above a plain band and a parapet with coping that extends as a verge on three regularly placed gables topped with finials. The slate roof has a stone ridge course, with coped verges on the returns and ashlar stacks with moulded caps at each gable, as well as a further similar stack offset to the center.

The building has a rectangular plan and presents a unified yet asymmetrical facade. It is two storeys high with an attic, consisting of seven bays, and features 2-light ogee-moulded stone-mullioned windows. The ground and first floor windows have transoms and leaded lights, with some quadrants still intact. A moulded string runs at first floor level and above the heads of the first floor windows, with a plain band between the transoms of these windows.

The entrance has an offset door opening within a bolection moulded stone surround, a pulvinated frieze, and a triangular pediment, with raised lettering that reads "PSA 1692" in the tympanum, leading to a 20th-century plank door. Inside, the left ground floor room contains a broad open fireplace with a chamfered lintel, while the central room has a fireplace in a bolection moulded stone surround. There are two similar fireplaces on the first floor, all likely inserted in 1692. The interior also features some late 18th-century work, including window shutters in all ground floor rooms. A single storey outshut on the left side is not included in the listing.

Local climate

Old Manor receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% 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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