The Manor House
THE MANOR HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215479
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANOR HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215479
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE 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:
- THE MANOR HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Glanvilles Wootton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 68159 08547
Details
GLANVILIES WOOTTON ST 60 NE 7/16 The Manor House 4.10.60 - II House, C17 and 1804. Earliest work probably for the Williams family, later work for James Dale of Blandford. Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs, the earlier range being gabled and the later being a hipped gambrel. Brick stacks at rear of later range and at gable of earlier range. Main (later) facade: symmetrical, 2 storeys and attic, 3 bay. 3-light C19 sashes with glazing bars under flat stone arches. Central glazed wooden porch with double doors. Parapet with plain coping and moulded cornice below. 3 flat roofed dormers with 4-pane windows. Projecting C19 porch to right. Rear wing: 2 storeys, 3 window range. Ground floor has 2 4-light stone mullioned,hollow chamfered windows with square heads and returned labels. Above are 2 similar 3-light windows and a central C20 single light window. Some leaded lights. Central doorway with chamfered 4-centred head and continuous jambs. To the left is a moulded 4-centred arch gateway. Internally, the C19 range has moulded and decorated cornices, doorways and window openings and an original staircase. The C17 wing has a fireplace with ashlar quoins, a chamfered ceiling beam, reset panelling and an C18 niche (RCHM) "RCHM Dorset Vol III", p 97, no 3.
Listing NGR: ST6815908547
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 102516
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 97
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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