Puncknowle Manor House

Puncknowle Manor House, Church Street, Puncknowle

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1288106
Date first listed:: 07-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: Puncknowle Manor House
Statutory Address:: Puncknowle Manor House, Church Street, Puncknowle

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1288106
Date first listed:: 07-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: Puncknowle Manor House
Statutory Address 1:: Puncknowle Manor House, Church Street, Puncknowle

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:: Puncknowle Manor House, Church Street, Puncknowle

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Puncknowle
National Grid Reference:: SY 53480 88628

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19 April 2023 to remove superfluous source details from text and reformat the text to current standards

SY 58 NW 6/214

PUNCKNOWLE CHURCH STREET (south side) Puncknowle Manor House

7-8-52 GV II* Manor House, c1600, with C19 rear range. Rubble-stone walls with dressed stone quoins. Hipped stone slab roof with diminishing slabs. Stacks: at north end wall eaves, with a tapering base and rendered over. Brick stack on south-west wall. Substantial porch at centre of east elevation, with a hipped roof over.

Plan: original east block (single depth) with rebuilt and added rear ranges. Two storeys, with attics. Three windows, three-lights each with elliptical heads and ovolo stone mullions carried up into the arches. Separate labels over. Windows have fixed lead lights with C19 metal casements. C19 intersecting-leading at top centre and top left. Porch has a round-headed entrance arch with moulded jambs and returned label over. Recessed panel with illegible inscription at centre. Three-light window over. Two single-light windows of the above type, light the landing staircases. Porch additionally has a stone barrel-vault and stone seats. Inner door has straight-chamfered jambs, and a two-leaf C20 door with bolections. C19 rear range. two storeys and dormers, four windows, two- and three-light wooden casements with glazing-bars. Stone cills. C20 French windows inserted to bays one and three. Four dormers over have sliding-sashes and glazing-bars. C20 range to north, off this (present entrance). Quasi-castellated parapet, with a flat roof behind. Saute casement design.

Interior: C17 ground floor, now entirely open, original divisions uncertain. Five major ceiling beams, slightly-chamfered, carried on moulded wooden brackets with stylized-foliage. Upper rooms, south room has complete bolection-moulded panelling with dado rail and panels, painted in brown grissaille very rapidly, landscape scenes and shipwreck; north wall with Moses in the Bull-rushes. North room with green ground and pink panels, cherubs in gold, and corner foliage. Date of present colouring not known.

Listing NGR: SY5347388629

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 400688
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1952), 190

Legal

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