Mapperton Rectory
MAPPERTON RECTORY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1288056
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Mapperton Rectory
- Statutory Address:
- MAPPERTON RECTORY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1288056
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Mapperton Rectory
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAPPERTON RECTORY
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:
- MAPPERTON RECTORY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Mapperton
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 50289 99756
Details
SY 59 NW MAPPERTON MAPPERTON 4-12-1951 8/99 Mapperton Rectory
II*
Former Rectory. 1699-1703 (Building Accounts). Dressed stone walls. Plain tile roof with stone gable-copings. Stone stacks at left and right hand gables, with ogee cornices. 2 storeys with attics. 7 windows, mainly 2-light ovolo stone mullions, though single-light windows in beside porch. Separate labels over all the windows. C20 metal casements with glazing-bars. Gabled two-storey porch at centre. Front doorway with straight-chamfered jambs and very depressed arch head, Separate label over. Inscribed on lintel: "restored 1890. Paulet Compton." Plank door with 2 main panels, studded. C18/19. South gable-wall has 2 big stepped buttresses. Interior: "I.P, 1701" on door lintel of north gable wall, (now internal). Internal arrangements much altered, C19 and C20.
The muse was built by John Powell, rector of South Mapperton from 1698. The Building Accounts survive: D.C.R.O. P81/IN2. Published by the Dorset Record Society, 1983 (ed. R. Machin). Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 156(3).
Listing NGR: SY5028999756
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 400749
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 156
Other
Machin, R, Mapperton Rectory Building Accounts, (1983)
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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