Benville Manor
BENVILLE MANOR, BENVILLE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1210861
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Benville Manor
- Statutory Address:
- BENVILLE MANOR, BENVILLE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1210861
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Benville Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- BENVILLE MANOR, BENVILLE LANE
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:
- BENVILLE MANOR, BENVILLE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Corscombe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 53428 03708
Details
CORSCOMBE BENVILLE LANE ST 50 SW 12.6.53 5/192 Benville Manor - II*
Manor House. Early C17 H-Plan house, with C18 and C19 alterations. South elevation: Rubble-stone walls, plain tile roof with stone gable- copings at ends, right hand end with ball-finial. One stone stack at left hand gable, 2 storeys and attics. 5 windows, canted stone bays, two to each side of front door. 4-light stone mullions with one canted. Hollow chamfers. Labels over ground floor windows. C20 metal casements with fixed lead lights. Centre-bay, altered in C19 with a built-up gable, coping and triple concrete stack. 3-light hollow-chamfered stone mullion to first floor. Label over. Front door at centre, wooden with muntins, C20. Tuscan Order stone porch with flat entablature, C19. West elevation: brick on a stone plinth. Flemish bond with burnt headers. 2 storeys. c4 windows. 3-light square stone mullions with continuous architrave, C18. Stone window insertions, C20. Back door with stone Tudor-arch head and continuous label over. Interior: South-east room with 5 panels of early C16 glass, (a) Churchill(?) quartering argent a cheveron between 3 roundels sable, and 2 damaged coats. (b) Canant. (c) Penny of Toller Whelme. (d) Arundell. (e) has lost its surface paint. Also fragments of late medieval church glass. South-west room: stone fireplace with straight- chamfered jambs and tongued stops, with a Tudor-arch head. Massive stone lintel. Part of moulded ceiling-beam, early C16, possibly re-used. Chasuble, red silk with fleur-de-lys, cl45O English, decorated with figures of saints and secular figures, flowers and seraphim. Attached walls and gate-piers, to south elevation, c C18. Rubble-stone walls with coping-stones, ramped to corners with large ball-finials. East elevation has 2 stone gate-piers with ball-finials on hollow-chamfered spurs. Source: RCHM Dorset I, p 106 (3).
Listing NGR: ST5342803708
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 395439
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 106
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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