Muston Manor Including Attached Wall, Dovecote and Mounting Block to South
MUSTON MANOR INCLUDING ATTACHED WALL, DOVECOTE AND MOUNTING BLOCK TO SOUTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118827
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Muston Manor Including Attached Wall, Dovecote and Mounting Block to South
- Statutory Address:
- MUSTON MANOR INCLUDING ATTACHED WALL, DOVECOTE AND MOUNTING BLOCK TO SOUTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118827
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Muston Manor Including Attached Wall, Dovecote and Mounting Block to South
- Statutory Address 1:
- MUSTON MANOR INCLUDING ATTACHED WALL, DOVECOTE AND MOUNTING BLOCK TO SOUTH
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:
- MUSTON MANOR INCLUDING ATTACHED WALL, DOVECOTE AND MOUNTING BLOCK TO SOUTH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Piddlehinton
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 72308 96017
Details
SY 70 NW PIDDLEHINTON
12/183 26-1-56 Muston Manor including attached wall, dovecote and mounting block to south (formerly listed as Muson Manor House) GV II
House, late C17. Brick (English bond) main facade wall; banded flint and rubble end walls. Tiled, gable-ended roof with brick stacks to right of door and to gables. 2 storey porch with attic; 5 bays with early C20 extension right. Ground floor has 4-light stone mullioned windows, with hollow chamfers. The upper floor has similar 3-light windows. Porch has a elliptically headed stone arch and continuously hollow chamfer and ogee moulded jambs. C19 2-light gabled dormers. Internal features: C17 chimney piece from Waterston Manor. To the south is a brick wall terminating in a small dovecote with a pitched slate roof. The wall has a gateway with brick piers having a flat stone coping with ball finials. Mounting block below dovecote. RCHM, Dorset, vol III, p 209, no 3.
Listing NGR: SY7230896017
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 104914
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset III Central, (1970), 209
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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