Manor House
MANOR HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1110215
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1110215
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR HOUSE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hammoon
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 81736 14612
Details
ST 81 SW HAMMOON HAMMOON VILLAGE
3/84 MANOR HOUSE 4-10-60 GV II *
Manor house, C16 with C17 wing and alterations and alterations of the C19. Ashlar, rubble and timber framing, partially rendered. Thatched roof with brick stacks with moulded caps in various locations. A complex house with interesting early renaissance details. 2 storeys, 6 window range. Canted 2-storey bay to right with 5-light stone mullioned windows, each light having a 4 centred head. Weathered string course between floors and a polygonal angle shaft, right. To the left of the porch are C19, 2 and 3 light timber mullioned windows. The upper floor has 2 and 3 light casements with leaded-lights. The porch is situated in the second bay from the right. It is of 2 storeys with an ornamental gable with moulded copings embellished at the sides with double scrolls on top of which are small obelisks. Round headed arch with scrolled keystone flanking which are rusticated Tuscan columns supporting an entablature. The spandrels bear decorative wreaths. The upper floor of the porch has a 3-light, square headed stone mullioned window., each light having a 4-centred head. Inner doorway has a 4-centred head and a heavy plank door on wrought-iron strap hinges. Other facades have various stone and timber mullioned windows and doorways with 4-centred heads.
Internal features (RCHM); much restored C17 staircase with square newel posts, ball finials and vase-shaped balusters; fireplaces with moulded heads; chamfered ceiling beams; C17 and C18 panelling; wind-braced collar-truss roof; C16 painted ceiling. (RCHM, Dorset, vol III, p-100-1, No 2. Newman, J and Pevsner, N. The Buildings of England, Dorset, p 221-2 Oswald, Arthur. Country Houses of Dorset, 1935, p 78).
Listing NGR: ST8170114651
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103172
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 100-101
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 221-222
Oswald, A, Country Houses of Dorset, (1935), 78
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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