Manston House
Manston House
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110437
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Manston House
- Statutory Address:
- Manston House
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110437
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Manston House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Manston 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:
- Manston House
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Manston
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 81613 15007
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 31 August 2021 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards
ST 81 NW
5/69
ST 81 SW
7/69
MANSTON
Manston House
GV
II
House, C17 origin but rebuilt in 1857. Ashlar with gabled slate roof behind parapet with end stone stacks. Two storeys with attics. Main facade, three bays 1:1:1. Outer bays have three-light mullioned and transomed windows with glazing bars. The upper-floor central window is similar but of two-lights. Pedimented doorway flanked by pilasters. Double, part-glazed door. Rear wing has some C17 stone mullioned windows.
RCHM, Dorset, vol III, p 144, no 3.
Newman J and Pevsner N, The Buildings of England: Dorset, Penguin, 1972.
Listing NGR: ST8161315007
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 102697
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 144
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972)
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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