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WINTERBOURNE STEEPLETON
SY 68 NW STEEFLETON VILLAGE 8/164 Manor Farmhouse
26-1-56
GV II* Manor farmhouse. Early C17, with later heightening at north end. C18 and
C20 alterations to fenestration. Dressed stone and knapped flint walls,
banded. Clay-tile roofs with concrete gable-copings. 4 C20 brick stacks,
set diagonally on square bases, at gable-ends, on C20 gable to road at south
end, and on ridge towards north end. Plan: 4-unit house, with tower-porch at
centre. Front elevation (off the road), 2 storeys and attics, 5 windows wide
including porch, ground floor openings: 6-light, 3-porch, 4-, C20 door. First
floor: 4-light, 3-, porch, 4-, 4-, all with ovolo moulded stone mullions and
moulded stone jambs. Separate labels over ground floor. C19 iron casements
with lead lights. Tower porch, stone, at centre, gabled, lower than main
ridge, with stone coping, entrance has straight-chamfered jambs and segmental
head with C20 plank-and-muntin door. Roof has 3 inserted C20 dormers with 3-
and 2-light casements. Elevation to road: has irregular 2- and 3-light
ovolo-moulded mullions, with C19 casements and leaded lights. Long string-
course, now fossilized at half-storey level. 3-light mullion window with flat
architrave and mullions, ashlar round arch over with Ham stone key, lighting
the staircase, inserted in C18. Interior of interest, access not obtained, see: (RCHM Dorset II, p.395 (2))
Listing NGR: SY6271189838
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Sources
Books and journals Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970), 395
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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