Catherston Manor Farmhouse
CATHERSTON MANOR FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118900
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Catherston Manor Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CATHERSTON MANOR FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118900
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Catherston Manor Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CATHERSTON MANOR FARMHOUSE
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:
- CATHERSTON MANOR FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Catherston Leweston
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 37013 94437
Details
SY 39 SE CATHERSTON LEWESTON
5/7 Catherston Manor House
G.V. II
Country House in grounds, now divided into separate properties. Dated JBSB 1887 on south porch gable. Late C16 Tower porch of former manor house survives at east end of south front. Architect not known. Lias stone ashlar walls. Slate roof with gable ends and 4 gables to south front. 2 stacks visible from south, stone with moulded cornices. Plan: long south front with 2 rear wings. South elevation: 2½ storeys, 8 bays. Bays 2, 4, 6 and 7 project. Windows: stone mullions of various lights, hollow chamfered with high transoms. Returned labels over. Mainly straight heads, though attic windows have 4-centred heads. Bay 2: canted bay to ground floor with openwork parapet. Bay 4: 2 storey porch. Front doorway with 4-centred head and moulded stone jambs. 2 leaf wooden door with blind panel tracery. Square oriel window over with blind panelling, 4 light mullion- and-transom window with 4-centred heads. Openwork parapet over. Porch has clasping octagonal buttresses with moulded stage-divisions. Bay 6: square ground floor bay window with openwork parapet. Bay 7: 2 small canted oriels with mullions and stone capping. Bay 8: mid-late C16 tower in grey ashlar limestone. Tall entrance with moulded jambs and elliptical arch. String- course breaks over. Square blind panel, rope moulded. 3 light Ham stone window with 4-centred heads over. Gabled to south with 2 finials at kneelers. This porch was taken down and re-erected on present site in Victorian period.
Overall, the house has an openwork quatrefoil parapet with barley-sugar finials at all the kneelers. 3 griffins hold shields at apex and kneelers of porch gable.
Interior: Early C18 staircase with square newels, turned balusters and close strings. Late C19 stone fireplace in hall.
The house is in the style of the early C16 prodigy houses of Dorset/ Somerset, (eg Clifton Maybank). "RCHM, Dorset I", p 70 (1).
Listing NGR: SY3701394437
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 104692
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 70
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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