Slape Manor
SLAPE MANOR, SLAPE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1216045
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Slape Manor
- Statutory Address:
- SLAPE MANOR, SLAPE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1216045
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Slape Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- SLAPE MANOR, SLAPE HILL
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:
- SLAPE MANOR, SLAPE HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Netherbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 47187 98425
Details
SY 49 NE NETHERBURY SLAPE HILL
7/154 Slape Manor 4-12-1951 GV II*
Manor House. C17 core, c. late C18 refenestration, C19 extension, and extensive 1931 refashioning by E.P. Warren. Rubble stone walls with dressed stone quoins and rusticated stone quoins to centre bay. Slate roof, hipped, 2 stone stacks at ridge, one stone stack at right hand eaves. Rear stacks. U-plan house, with C19 extensions to this. 2 storeys and attics. North elevation of main house, 5 bays, sashes with stone architraves and projecting dropped stone keys. Stone cills. Centre pedimented bay projects, c. early C19. Modillion cornice to pediment, oculus, with glazing-bars in centre. Sash window at centre and stone porch, c.C19. Round-headed lower windows and roundels above, 1931. Porch entrance with quasi-Doric pilasters, round arch and projecting dropped key carried through into the cornice. 2-leaf door with recess panels, Cl9. Rear elevation: window design, same as front sashes. Staircase windows, round-headed with impost-block and keys. Oculi over are of 1931. two C17 2-light mullions light the cellar. East end of house, more Cl7 evidence, 3-light windows with labels Doorway with a four-centred head and label. C19 Victorian extension on west end of house, one room with a canted bay at the end. Octagonal cupola with lead lights and ogival lead cap, 1931. Interior: roof-construction, probably partly Cl7. Central ground-floor roan created by E.P. Warren, shallow dome with lacey spandrels, plain pilasters articulate the space, palmette-style frieze. Present drawing-room has fielded panelling of uncertain date, the 2 fireplaces have changed walls. Rococoesque detailing by Warren. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 173(4).
Listing NGR: SY4718798425
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 401374
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 173
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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