Whitecliff Manor
WHITECLIFF MANOR, WHITECLIFF ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119885
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Whitecliff Manor
- Statutory Address:
- WHITECLIFF MANOR, WHITECLIFF ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119885
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Mar-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Whitecliff Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITECLIFF MANOR, WHITECLIFF ROAD
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:
- WHITECLIFF MANOR, WHITECLIFF ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Swanage
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 02975 80754
Details
Whitecliff Manor 1. 5190 (formerly listed as Whitecliff Farm) SZ 08 SW 1/148 26.6.52 II
2. C17 origin. Purbeck Stone walls. Purbeck Stone roofs. Ashlar stone stacks with moulded string courses and caps. Main range has a stone porch - probably a later addition, with round arched doorway. Ground floor has one 3-light stone mullioned window, two 2-light stone mullioned windows, and one single-light window with arched head. First floor has three 2-light mullioned windows, and one small window, probably originally lighting a stair or closet. All the mullioned windows are renewals. Large buttress at north-east end. Two-storeyed wing at the rear. Part of this appears contemporary with the main range - extended in C18. This wing has modern wood casement windows, some with cast iron diagonal glazing. The wing is continued to form a barn, at a slightly lower level, all in Purbeck Stone. At the west end of the main range is a 2-storeyed section, roofed at right angles to the main range -possibly the surviving portion of an earlier house (RCHM). Interior considerably modernised.
Note: Apart from the attached barn described, the farm buildings are recent, or much altered, and not listable. RCHM Monument 78.
Listing NGR: SZ0297580754
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 108276
- 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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