Manor House
MANOR HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1119843
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1119843
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 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:
- MANOR HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West Stafford
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 72841 89688
Details
WEST STAFFORD SY 7289
16/200 Manor House
26.1.56
- I
Manor house. C17 origin, remodelled in early C18 for George White (RCHM). Further alterations, and north front remodelled in early C19. Coursed rubble stone walls, - front wall plastered. Hipped tiled roof with moulded eaves cornices. Rubble end stacks. Originally U-shaped plan, with projecting wings at rear and added porch between these. 2 storeys and attic. Entrance (north) front plastered, with pilasters at ends and at each side of doorway. Lower parts of these rusticated, upper parts panelled. Open portico with 4 Roman Doric columns supporting entablature with metope frieze and cornice. Round arched doorway, moulded, with fanlight and pseudo - Tudor oak door. Ground floor has 4 sashes with glazing bars under plastered flat arches. 3 similar windows on first floor. Attic has 3 flat roofed dormers with sashes with glazing bars. Left (east) end wall of exposed rubble. More elaborate modillion cornice, raised in centre as gable, with Coat of Arms. Central glazed door, and sashes with glazing bars on each floor. On garden (south) front, central 2-storeyed porch has -glazed doors in classical surround. French doors over, on to balcony with ornamental iron railings. This flanked by round arched windows on each floor, with sashes with glazing bars. In the end wings, one sash with glazing bars on each floor. Evidence of earlier, wider windows here, and in the inner-facing side walls. At south west corner, a C19 service range, with brick walls, part plastered and roof behind parapet. 2 storeys over cellar. Sashes with glazing bars. North of this across a service yard, a single storey service range. Front wall of this of rubble stone, has round arched windows with 'Gothic' glazing. Internally, early C19 cut string geometrical stair with wreathed handrail and spandrel brackets. South east ground floor room has raised panelling, carved C18 fireplace surround and semi-circular niche. Other rooms have C18 moulded cornices. Doors with reeded architraves. (RCHM Monument 6. Dorset Vol II)
Listing NGR: SY7284189688
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 106389
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970)
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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