Manor House, Including Front Boundary Wall
MANOR HOUSE, INCLUDING FRONT BOUNDARY WALL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1154493
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House, Including Front Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR HOUSE, INCLUDING FRONT BOUNDARY WALL, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1154493
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House, Including Front Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR HOUSE, INCLUDING FRONT BOUNDARY WALL, HIGH STREET
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, INCLUDING FRONT BOUNDARY WALL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Yetminster
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 59419 10856
Details
ST 5910
11/146
11.7.51
YETMINSTER
HIGH STREET(North side)Manor House,including front boundary wall
GII*
Detached house.Early C17 but may incorporate some C16 work.Early C19 block at left end,-built as a separate cottage.Rubble stone walls,double Roman tile roof with coped gables-finial to left gable.One brick stack at right end,one near left end.L-shaped plan,with projecting rear wing at right end.Two storeys.Ground floor has a C18 raised panel door in moulded stone-surround,into cross-passage at left end.Two five-light stone mullioned windows with diamond lead lights under continuous string course stepped up over windows.Oval window between these.First floor has two two-light and two four-light similar windows.In left gable a small twin arched window.Cottage at left end,of two storeys,at lower level,has slate roof with coped gable and brick end stack.Ground floor has a five-light timber mullioned window with diamond lead lights.Similar three-light window on first floor.Internally,centre ground floor room has large stone four-centred arched fireplace.Compartmented ceiling with deep moulded beams,and joists spanning the panels in alternate directions-basket fashion.Plank and muntin partition between this and right room.Right room has compartmented ceiling with deep chamfered beams.C18 fireplace surround.Partition at rear with slatted opening at high level.At foot of stairs and start of adjoining passage,depressed timber ogee arches-that to stair with carving in spandrils.Four-centred arched doorway at rear of cross-passage,and from cross-passage to rear corridor(originally into centre room).Some deep chamfered ceiling beams on first floor.Rear wing has jointed cruck trusses.On ground floor,the lintel of a large blocked fireplace.Later outbuilding extension to this wing.Low front boundary wall with simple iron railing.(RCHM Monument 17 Dorset.Vol.IR Machin."The Houses of Yetminster".University of Bristol 1978.)
Listing NGR: ST5941910856
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 106163
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1952)
Machin, R, The Houses of Yetminster, (1978)
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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