Manor Farmhouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1968. Farmhouse.
Manor Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sombre-cobalt-stoat
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Frome and East Somerset MP: Anna Sabine (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1968
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Manor Farmhouse, Wanstrow
- OS grid reference
- ST 722 440
- Coordinates
- 51.19483, -2.39912
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Manor Farmhouse is a manor house that is reputedly dated 1633, with a later addition believed to be from 1687. It is constructed from coursed and squared Ham Hill stone, with some ashlar, dressed quoins, and roofs made of plain tiles and asbestos sheets. The building features coped verges on kneelers and ashlar stacks with moulded caps. It has a "T"-plan and is designed in a late Jacobean style.
The house is divided into two halves. The earlier wing on the right is two storeys tall with an attic, consisting of three bays. It has stone mullion and transom windows with two and five lights; the mullions are distinctive for being of plain half-round section without a centre fillet, and there are moulded strings above the window heads. The later half is of lower height, also two storeys, with three bays. It features two and three-light stone mullioned casements on the first floor, and below these is a single large six-light mullion and transom window.
A central porch with a hipped roof connects the two halves. This porch has two semi-circular headed door openings, both inner and outer, that are similarly decorated with emphasised keystones and a massive studded inner door. Inside, the house contains a well-crafted staircase with a massive square newel post topped by an elaborately carved finial, and the balusters are concealed by plastered 19th-century side panelling. The upper floors have moulded doorcases and four-centred fire surrounds. The building is marked as Cloford House on the Ordnance Survey map.
Local climate
Manor Farmhouse receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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