Morton's House Including Attached Outbuildings and Front Boundary Wall
MORTON'S HOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1229002
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Morton's House Including Attached Outbuildings and Front Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address:
- MORTON'S HOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL, EAST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1229002
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Morton's House Including Attached Outbuildings and Front Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- MORTON'S HOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL, EAST STREET
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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:
- MORTON'S HOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS AND FRONT BOUNDARY WALL, EAST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Corfe Castle
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 96146 82027
Details
CORFE CASTLE EAST STREET (East side) SY 96 82 7/28 Morton's House (formerly listed as Manor House) 20.11.59 including attached out- buildings and front boundary wall GV II* Manor House, now used as hotel. Late C16-early C17, enlarged to rear later in C17. Rough ashlar walls with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs with stone eaves courses and coped gables. Ashlar stacks each end of main range and at rear. Irregular E-shaped plan. Part one storey and attic, part 2 storeys. Chamfered plinth, and string course at first floor level. 2-storeyed gabled porch in centre of front range, with moulded round-arched outer doorway and 4-centred arched inner doorway. Panelled door. On first floor a 2-light stone mullioned window with lead lights and hoodmould. On each side of porch, a similar window on each floor, those on upper floor in gabled dormers. Projecting wings at each end have, in gable end, a 2-light stone mullioned window with lead lights on ground floor and a similar window with hoodmould on first floor. Single-light attic window in left wing. Inner face of left wing has, on ground floor, one 2-light and one 4-light similar window. Attic has a gabled dormer with similar 3-light window. Inner face of right wing has, on ground floor, a similar 4-light window and a 4-centred arched doorway. Attic has a gabled dormer with a similar 3-light window. Attached outbuildings on north, and at rear, of rubble stone, with stone slate roofs - probably C19. Internally, main ground floor room in right wing has oak panelling with classical pilasters and enriched cornice, and stone fireplace with 4-centred arch. Hall has similar fireplace, and a cut string stair with moulded balusters and carved spandrel brackets. First floor room in right wing has stone fireplace in early Renaissance style with strapwork detail on frieze. Front boundary wall of rubble stone, with simple capping. 4-centred archway in centre, with moulded capping. Wing walls at each end connect this to main house - this all probably early C20. (RCHM, Monument 38. Dorset. Vol. II).
Listing NGR: SY9614682027
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109180
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970)
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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