Childhay Manor Farmhouse
CHILDHAY MANOR FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1291153
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Childhay Manor Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CHILDHAY MANOR FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1291153
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Childhay Manor Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHILDHAY MANOR FARMHOUSE
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:
- CHILDHAY MANOR FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Broadwindsor
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 40955 04011
Details
ST 40 SW BROADWINDSOR CHILDHAY 4-12-1951 4/24 Childhay Manor Farmhouse (formerly listed as GV Childhay Farmhouse)
II*
Farmhouse, former Manor House. Late C15 core, with C17 and C19 rebuilding and extensions. Kitchen: cross-wing, cross-passage, hall rebuilt and room beyond rebuilt. South east elevation: ashlar stone walls with plinth and base mouldings of C15. Plain tile roof, C19, with a stone gable-coping at left hand. 5 C19 brick stacks, at left hand gable, hall-block centre, ridge behind porch, right hand gable, and rear gable. 2 storeys, c.5 windows. Hall: 3- and 4-light stone mullions (cavetto) with 4-centred heads, no labels. Wood and iron- framed casements. c.C17. Projecting 2 storey porch, C15 with embattled parapet and carved gargoyles. Wave-moulded outer jambs with Tudor-arch head. Quatrefoil spandrels with foliated centres. Upper storey has 2 C16 windows with labels. Inner doorway has stone jambs with bracket-moulding. Plank and batten door. Right hand gabled bay has 2 2-light stone mullions to ground floor, and a transomed 4-light mullion over, C19. Rear of main block has late C18 brickwork, in unclassified bond (3 stretchers, 1 header, staggered). Rear stone porch, C19, 2 storeys with pointed-arch head. Rear stone outshut at west end with a pentice roof. Interior: kitchen, ceiling in 6 main compartments, big straight chamfers, quirked. Stone fireplace with Tudor-arch head and recess spandrels. Later blocking. Dado has continuous C17 panelling, square panels with moulded muntins, and rail with incised sunk circle pattern, round whole room. Doorway to kitchen with moulded stone jambs and Tudor-arch head. Pegged wooden door-frame and 4-plank door. Flagstone floors. Hall, west of cross-passage, rebuilt in C19 into smaller rooms, rebuilt open fireplace. Stone fireplace in room over kitchen, moulded jambs and a square head; c.C15. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 53(4).
Listing NGR: ST4095504011
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105016
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 53
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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