Bettiscombe Manor House With Attached South Front Area Wall and Gate-piers
BETTISCOMBE MANOR HOUSE WITH ATTACHED SOUTH FRONT AREA WALL AND GATE-PIERS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1118973
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Bettiscombe Manor House With Attached South Front Area Wall and Gate-piers
- Statutory Address:
- BETTISCOMBE MANOR HOUSE WITH ATTACHED SOUTH FRONT AREA WALL AND GATE-PIERS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1118973
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Bettiscombe Manor House With Attached South Front Area Wall and Gate-piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- BETTISCOMBE MANOR HOUSE WITH ATTACHED SOUTH FRONT AREA WALL AND GATE-PIERS
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:
- BETTISCOMBE MANOR HOUSE WITH ATTACHED SOUTH FRONT AREA WALL AND GATE-PIERS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bettiscombe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 40141 00322
Details
ST 40 SW BETTISCOMBE
4/1 Bettiscombe Manor House with attached south front area wall and gate-piers 4.12.51
GV II*
Manor House c.1694 and early C18. Possibly C16 core to main range. Brick walls in Flemish Bond with regular pattern of burnt headers. Ham stone rusticated quoins. Ham stone ovolo-moulded string-course over ground floor windows. Slate roof with stone gable-copings and moulded corbels. Brick stacks with rusticated stone quoins and moulded stone cornices, sited at gable-ends and on rear-wing gables. U-Plan house: main range with two back wings. Two storeys with attics. Five window bays, three light wooden sashes with fluted motif renewed to ground floor. Segmental window-heads. Ham stone cills. Front door, just left of centre: six-panelled, with fluted wooden pilaster doorcase, and massive foliated scroll brackets supporting a Doric entablature and pediment over. East front with one late C17 casement window. Staircase-window: round-headed with gauged brickwork, projecting imposts and keystone. Interior: Hall with panelled screen on three elliptical arches with dropped keys. Ceiling in twelve compartments: six compartments on right hand with C16 moulded beams with sunk oak-leaf pattern. Low ceiling, and above beams perhaps indicate C16 core to house. Bolection-moulded, and recessed panelling of high quality throughout the house, some recently renewed.
Overmantels and fireplace-surrounds. One fireplace with c.1700 glazed tiles and grate-fittings. Closets, panelled in beside chimney breasts, with original tables, drawers and shelves. Staircase with fluted newels, with Roman Doric capitals and faces. Ramped handrail, three fluted balusters per tread, c.1720. Massive Blue Lias flagstones in Hall.
Attached low brick wall and Ham stone gate-piers, forming small paved area on south front of house. Early C18. Brick walls with Ham stone copings and wrought-iron railings over. The square piers with moulded plinths, two recessed panels to each face, the upper with ogee and round-moulded heads. Doric cornices with cavetto spur-finials on top.
Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p. 28(2).
Listing NGR: ST4014100322
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 104558
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 28
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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