Old Manor House
OLD MANOR HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288598
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Old Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- OLD MANOR HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288598
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Old Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD MANOR HOUSE
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:
- OLD MANOR HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Compton Valence
- National Grid Reference:
- SY5928593291
Details
SY 59 SE
5/23
26-1-56
COMPTON VALENCE
COMPTON VALENCE VILLAGE
Old Manor House
GV
II
Manor House, with attached cottages at both ends. Early C17, with C19
refenestration, and C20 restoration. Dressed stone and flint walls banded.
Lias stone window dressings. Slate roof with gable ends. Brick stacks left
of centre and at right hand gable. Two storeys and attics with a porch at
centre, with hipped roof. One C18 bay at left hand with 2-light wooden
casements with glazing-bars and segmental brick arches over. 3 C17 windows,
3-light C17 stone-mullion, with iron casements and lead lights throughout.
Separate labels over. Tension-bars. Ground floor windows: 3-light, 5-light
first floor: 3, 2 and 4-light. Porch doorway has a depressed-arch head and
chamfered jambs. Separate label over. Outer plank door, C20. Inner door,
plank-and-muntin, C20. Interior: ceiling-beams with moulded chamfer. Large
mantelshelf in left hand room. Flagstone floors throughout. Rear wing has
remains of stone fireplace, cut into at left hand end, and a smaller fireplace
inserted beside it, brought from upstairs. Staircase mentioned in RCHM, no
longer survives. Cellar under rear wing is lined with chalk blocks.
(R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p.105(2))
Listing NGR: SY5928593291
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 399077
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 105
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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