Mapperton Manor House
MAPPERTON MANOR HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1215471
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Mapperton Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- MAPPERTON MANOR HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1215471
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Mapperton Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAPPERTON 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:
- MAPPERTON MANOR HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Mapperton
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 50353 99673
Details
SY 59 NW MAPPERTON MAPPERTON 4-12-1951 8/88 Mapperton Manor House
GV I
Manor House. Mid C16 (north range), early-mid C17 (main front), mid C18 refashioning of north range, modern alterations. Ashlar stone walls, stone slab and slate roofs. Stone gable-copings. Square and spiral stone stacks on ridge, and north gable-end. Main front, early C17. 2 storeys with attics. 7 windows, 2-light mullion-and-transom type with square heads, (ovolo moulds). End bays are projecting and 3-sided, with same features. Stone balustraded parapet, probably C18. 3 C20 dormers, with hipped roofs. Projecting, two-storey porch at centre, with altered outer archway (depressed-arch). Achievement- of-arms of Brodrepp over,and 2-light window above this. Side-walls of the porch each have two internal niches with shell-heads. Scratched initials and date R.B. (Richards Brodrepp) 1666. Re-set C16 inner doorway: moulded jambs and depressed arch in a square head. Morgan crest in the spandrels. North range, c.1500 by Robert Morgan, refashioned north wall, c.1760. South wall has 3- and 4-light stone mullions, with 4-centred heads. Top window of 4-lights is a gabled dormer, with twisted pinnacles, possibly C19. Clasping octagonal buttresses at corners of the range, with spiral pinnacles, with griffin and lion terminals. North wall, refaced and given sashes with moulded architraves. Centre bay brought forward, cutting the C16 plinth mouldings. 5 bays total. Doorway at centre, with moulded architrave and volute brackets with pediment over. South-east block, formerly detached, C17, with modern attachments to house. Service-buildings. Same details: of 2-light mullions with separate labels. Service doorway with corridor through, from south wall. C20 walling, and muniment room links Dining Room to Chancel of church. Interior: kitchen wing at rear of C17 house, large open fireplace with straight-chamfered jambs and depressed arch head. Dining Room: bolection-moulded Panelling with heavy entablature and cornice. Similarly moulded stone fireplace. Former external doorway, C17, with oak draw-bar. Entrance, passage with C17 screenwork with large baluster posts altered by insertion of modern doorways. Hall: early C17 artwented panelling. Fireplace with moulded jambs and depressed-arch head, early C17. Plaster overmantel brought from Melplash in 1909. opining into north-west bay-window, stone, round arch with panelled keystone, responds and Ionic pilasters. Drawing Room: bolection-moulded panelling, early C18. Mid Cl8 fireplace with rococo scrollwork and birds. Important late C16 ceiling, of geometrical rib design, with fleur-de-lis and coats-of-arms. Room over Drawing Room, with important pendant plaster ceiling. Stair Hall, north wing, later C18. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 154(2).
Listing NGR: SY5035299683
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 400649
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 154
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 12 Dorset,
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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