Manor House
MANOR HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1172313
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR HOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1172313
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- 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:
- Winterborne Clenston
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 83872 03130
Details
WINTERBORNE CLENSTON ST 80 SW 14-7-55 6/95 Manor House GV I
Manor house, early C16 with C17 additions. Banded flint and ashlar and rubble with ashlar dressings. Stone-slate roofs with brick end stacks and stacks to ends of original range. Projecting flint and ashlar chimneybreast right. Part 2, part 3 storeys, 7 bays. Original facade approximately symmetrical, C17 addition left. 3 and 4-light stone-mullioned windows with moulded labels with head stops. Those to the upper floor of the C16 part have 4-centred heads to the lights. Central to the early range is a 2 storey octagonal stair turret and porch which is corbelled out in a series of mouldings to square plan at eaves level and is surmounted by a gable. The main doorway in the side of the tower has a moulded, 4-centred head with continuous jambs.
Internal features (RCHM): original C16 roof of 10 collar-beam trusses with cambered collars, chamfered arch-braces and cusped wind-bracing; original C16 coffered ceiling throughout the original range with moulded, intersecting beams; some original fireplaces; C17 panelling and doors.
See RCHM for complete description. (RCHM, Dorset vol.III, p.293-5, no.2. Newman J. and Pevsner, N. The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972, p.477-9.)
Listing NGR: ST8387203130
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103371
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 293-295
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 477-479
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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