The Manor House
THE MANOR HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1152846
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANOR HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1152846
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1953
- 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:
- Rampisham
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 56175 02264
Details
ST 50 SE RAMPISHAM RAMPISHAM VILLAGE
3/141 The Manor House 12.6.53 GV II
Manor House. Early C17, remodelled internally late C19, and with early C20 additions on the east and north-west. Rubble- stone and dressed stone walls with ashlar quoins. Roman tile roofs, hipped. Stone and brick stacks on south ridge, and brick on north-west wing. Two storeys and attics. Entrance front, 3 windows then north-west range, 2 storey porch, gabled, left of centre. Mullion-and-transom windows, mainly of 4 lights, with separate labels over the ground floor windows. Iron casements, leaded. Porch entrance has a depressed- arch head with separate label over. Plank door inside. South elevation: 5 windows, also of mullion-and-transom type, with 2-light windows over. C20 dormers inserted on the north and south elevations. Depressed-arch doorway at centre, with separate label over. High up on this wall is a small round dial, dated 1608. Interior: completely remodelled, late C19. South-west room has an overmantel made up of C17, fragments from the former screen mentioned in Hutchins; it has a frieze with fruit and swags; there are fragments from the same source in the north-east room. Both rooms have panelled C17 doors with elaborate enrichment over the doorways and scrolled cresting. Fragment of early C16 glass with a red rose and a number of C14 slip-tiles found near the house and including shields-of-arms of Bryan. (RCHM).
(RCHM Dorset I, p192(6). J Hutchins, History of Dorset vol II, p694, 3rd ed. 1861-74).
Listing NGR: ST5617502264
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105466
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 192
Hutchins, J, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, (1861), 694
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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