The Manor House
THE MANOR HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1290014
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANOR HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1290014
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE 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:
- THE MANOR HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Corscombe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 51719 01489
Details
CORSCOMBE TOLLER WHELME ST 50 SW 12.6.53 5/227 The Manor House, formerly listed as Manor Farmhouse GV II*
Manor House. c C15 rear range, much altered, C17 front range, with C18 extension at rear. Rear: rubble-stone walls, some rendered, with asbestos slate roofs. Diagonal buttresses with 2 set-offs, at south end wall, one internal. Remains of diagonal buttress at north end. 2 storeys. Renewed 2-light wooden casements. Porch, of stone, with a hipped stone slate roof, set in angle between medieval and C17 range. 4-centred arch with moulded jambs. North end of range has a stone fireplace with a square head and moulded jambs, c6 foot wide, 5 foot high. East wall has a blocked pointed- arch doorhead with moulded jambs. C17 range: rubble-stone walls with a thatch roof and stone gable-copings. Brick stacks at left hand gable, right of centre, and right hand gable. 2 storeys with attics. 4 windows. 2-light hollow-chamfered stone mullions with separate labels over. Iron casements with glazing-bars. No door on the main range. Pentice-roofed extension at right hand, rubble-stone with slate roof. C18 rear range, with hollow-chamfered stone mullions of 2 and 4 lights, with labels. Wood marginal glazing-bars to windows. Interior: stone flags. Mid-chamfered ceiling-beams. Small Cl7 fireplace with keyed wooden lintel and stone jambs. Source: RCHM Dorset I, pl07(5).
Listing NGR: ST5171901489
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 395900
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 107
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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