Meerhay Manor
MEERHAY MANOR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1290899
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Meerhay Manor
- Statutory Address:
- MEERHAY MANOR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1290899
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Meerhay Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- MEERHAY MANOR
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:
- MEERHAY MANOR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Beaminster
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 48514 02642
Details
BEAMINSTER MEERHAY ST 40 SE 4/96 Meerhay Manor 12-6-53 - II*
Manor farmhouse. C16, rebuilt c.1610, north west wing added later in C17. Rubble stone and ashlar walls. Thatch roof with stone gable-copings. 3 brick stacks to south east elevation, at left hand gable, right of centre, right hand gable. 2 and 1 1/2 storeys (at right hand). 5 windows 3-light hollow-chamfered stone mullions with separate labels over. Iron casements with tension-bars, or C20 metal casements, small leaded lights. Bay-w1nsaw with 3-light hollow-chamfered stone mullions, leaded lights and hipped slate roof over, C20, at left hand end. First floor with 2 and 3-light mullions inserted. Front door, slightly left of centre, stone surround with Tudor- arch head and sunk spandrels. No label over the lintel. Door is 3 planks wide and studded. Rear elevation has 4- and 6-light stone mullion windows. Door with moulded stone jambs. Rear north west wing, 2 storeys with attics, 2 and 4-light hollow-chamfered mullions with separate labels. Interior: roof of jointed-cruck construction with collar-beams. 2 sets of wide through-purlins. 7 bays, probably C16. Tie-beams inserted in C17, with creation of a bedroom floor. Ground floor, south west end with Tudor arch moulded-stone fireplace with spiral stone steps set in to the left of it. Kitchen fireplace at opposite end with wooden lintel, and small 2-light window beside it. Bread oven in left hand side. Rear wing also of jointed-cruck construction with inserted queen-struts. Staircase in rear wing of 2 returned flights, turned balusters, and thin moulded handrail, late C17. Re-used plank-and-muntin upstairs. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 26 (50).
Listing NGR: ST4851402642
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 394340
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 26
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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