MAPPERCOMBE MANOR HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1216408
Date first listed:: 04-Dec-1951
List Entry Name:: MAPPERCOMBE MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address:: MAPPERCOMBE MANOR HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1216408
Date first listed:: 04-Dec-1951
List Entry Name:: MAPPERCOMBE MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: MAPPERCOMBE MANOR HOUSE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MAPPERCOMBE MANOR HOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Powerstock
National Grid Reference:: SY 51206 95122

Details

SY 59 NW POWERSTOCK MAPPERCOMBE 4-12-1951 8/191 Mappercombe Manor House

GV I

Manor House. Early C17, with C15 south-east corner. Late C17 north- west range. Dressed stone walls. Clay tile roof with stone gable- copings and moulded ogee kneelers. Brick stacks, of c.1900, just below ridge, left of centre, main range, behind ridge on south range, north-west range front eaves and rear eaves. C15 part, one bay, 2 storeys. Ground 3-light mullion (ovolo). Trefoil-headed lancet over. Gable-wall has a 2-light trefoil-headed window with a label and carved head-stops. South range: 2 storeys and basements. 3 windows, 4-, 5-, 4-light stone mullions (ovolos). Stone plat-band and individual cornice-labels to ground floor windows. First floor windows without labels. Entrance originally at centre of this range. North- west range joined to front block by a 2 bay rear wing. North West range: 2 storeys, 5 windows, white limestone mullions (ovolos) with separate classical cornices over. Doorway , approximately at centre with moulded stone jambs and very depressed-arch head. Sundial with ram's head and swag above doorway. North block of house is early C20. 2 storeys and attics. 3 windows. Tall C20 brick stacks. Present entrance porch on east side, Cl9, with a 4-centred entrance and blocked bull's eye. Plank door. Interior: west room of the south range, C17 plaster frieze of running vine-ornament. Stone fireplace with architrave, pulvinated frieze, cornice and a blank shield in the middle of the frieze. Room above has a similar plaster frieze. Upper room in small South east wing (?chapel), recess with a trefoiled head in the south wall. North-west range, reset C17 overmantel of 4 panelled bays with enriched divisions, panels have painted shields-of-arms. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 184(4).

Listing NGR: SY5120695122

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 401783
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 184

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.