Steepleton Manor With Attached Courtyard Walls and Gates
STEEPLETON MANOR WITH ATTACHED COURTYARD WALLS AND GATES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279269
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Steepleton Manor With Attached Courtyard Walls and Gates
- Statutory Address:
- STEEPLETON MANOR WITH ATTACHED COURTYARD WALLS AND GATES
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279269
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Steepleton Manor With Attached Courtyard Walls and Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- STEEPLETON MANOR WITH ATTACHED COURTYARD WALLS AND GATES
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:
- STEEPLETON MANOR WITH ATTACHED COURTYARD WALLS AND GATES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Winterbourne Steepleton
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 62838 89748
Details
WINTERBOURNE STEEPLETON SY 68 NW STEEPLETON VILLAGE
8/160 Steepleton Manor with attached courtyard walls and gates.
GV II
Manor House, now Retirement Home. 1870. By T H Wyatt for W G Lambert. Rock-faced Portland stone walls, with Ham Stone dressings, for windows, doors, strings, buttresses and finials. Clay tile and slate roofs. Grouped Portland and Ham stone stacks on ridges left and right of centre, and in valleys. H-plan house, with low single-storey service ranges off the west end. 2 storeys and attics. 7 bays to front (north) elevation, slightly asymmetrical. Windows of 2 and 3 lights have ovolo-moulded mullions and straight-chamfered jambs, cross-transomed to ground floor. Wooden sashes, mainly with plate glass, though coloured quarries in rectangular leading immediately right of front door. Gabled dormers with 2-light mullions and stone finials over. 2 storey porch at centre with buttresses and barley-sugar finials. 2-light transomed mullion window to first floor. Entrance has a pointed arch in a square head, with deep moulded jambs and a label over. Foliage. 2-leaf door with pointed head and 4 recess-panels each, C19. Shield of Arms over. Further stone shields in top left and top right gables. East elevation has 2 large canted bays to ground floor with French window between. Inscription on parapets of bays (left): W G L HOC ERAT IN VOTIS 1870; (right) SERVATA FIDES CINERI, and 2 shields of arms. South elevation, more asymmetrical, with large canted bay at left ground, large staircase window mullioned and double-transomed at centre, and canted oriel at right first floor level carried on a buttress and heavily moulded corbelling, single sashes to each side with a high transom. Single-storey range of service-rooms with same masonry and pitched slate roofs. Small single and double sashes, 3 plank doors, widely spaced on south side, C19.
Interior: large hall left from porch, with 2 round arches (Tuscan column) giving access to stair well. Original doors and window shutters throughout. Top landing with elliptical arches carried on scroll corbels. Plaster palmette and other foliage cornices to ground floor rooms. Attached front courtyard walls forming a rectangle-to roadside, rock-faced with chamfered stone coping, square stone piers with ball finials on east and west sides; front wall is low with continuous stone arcading over, Gibbsian stone piers with moulded cornices and gadrooned cases on top, original iron gates. (J Newman and N Pevsner, Dorset, p.491)
Listing NGR: SY6283889748
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 403861
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 491
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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