West Woodyates Manor

West Woodyates Manor, West Woodyates

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1153726
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1955
List Entry Name:: West Woodyates Manor
Statutory Address:: West Woodyates Manor, West Woodyates

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1153726
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 03-Apr-1986
List Entry Name:: West Woodyates Manor
Statutory Address 1:: West Woodyates Manor, West Woodyates

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: West Woodyates Manor, West Woodyates

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge
National Grid Reference:: SU 01626 19491

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18 March 2021 to correct the grade, remove superfluous source details and reformat the text to current standards. SU 01 NW 3/82

PENTRIDGE WEST WOODYATES West Woodyates Manor

(formerly listed as Manor Farmhouse,West Woodyates)

18.3.55

II* Manor house, C17 or earlier origin, remodelled early C18 with further alterations and extensions of the C19 and C20. C18 work probably for Lord Londonderry. Flint and rubble walls, partly rendered, with ashlar dressings. Tiled roofs with ashlar stack left and brick stacks to rear of ridge. C18 front originally symmetrical. Two storeys with attics and basements, five bay with C19 two storey bow to the right. Eaves parapet with moulded cornice. Twelve-pane sashes under square heads with keystones. Upper floor central window has moulded architrave. The outer bays are flanked by bull's eye windows in each storey. Hipped dormers. Central rusticated doorcase with panelled door.

Internal features (RCHM): ground floor, south-west room has open fireplace with chamfered bressummer with rounded shoulders and raised centre; same room is lined with C17 panelling; one upper floor room has a moulded stone fireplace surround with a rounded head and another has an C18 fireplace with a bolection moulded surround.

Listing NGR: SU0162619491

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 107419
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Inventory of Dorset, (1975), 53 54

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.