The Manor House
THE MANOR HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119216
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANOR HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119216
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE 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:
- THE MANOR HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whitcombe
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 71739 88139
Details
SY 78 NW WHITCOMBE
6/98 The Manor House (formerly listed as 26.1.56 Whitcombe Farmhouse)
GV II
Farmhouse, extended at both ends and raised. Early C18 with much C19 refenestration and extension. Coursed and squared rubble walls, with brick dressings and brick quoins. Clay tile roof with stone slates at eaves, hipped at both ends. Brick stacks at left hip apex, ridge left of centre, and on ridge towards right hip apex. 2 storeys. 5 windows to ground floor, irregular fenestration, sashes with glazing bars, wood cills, cambered brick arches and concrete lintels. Two French windows, right of centre, with glazing bars, C20. Blocked doorway at oentre with brick dressings, former front door position. Front door is now situated in a C20 porch extension to south end wall, rubble stone and brick quoins. Door has 6 fielded panels, C20 with bracketed stone canopy over, C20. Continuous single storey outshut at rear of house, under a tile roof. Back door is 6 panelled, C20. Interior: mid chamfered ceiling beams. Outbuilding attached at north end, C19, rubble and brick walls with a clay tile roof over. Brick stack. French window to garden, C20, and 2 light casement to yard. (R.C.H.M. Dorset II, p.376 (2)).
Listing NGR: SY7173988139
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105990
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 376
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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