GATEHOUSE AND SOUTH COURTYARD WALLS TO CRANBORNE MANOR HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1304268
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1955
List Entry Name:: GATEHOUSE AND SOUTH COURTYARD WALLS TO CRANBORNE MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address:: GATEHOUSE AND SOUTH COURTYARD WALLS TO CRANBORNE MANOR HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1304268
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1955
List Entry Name:: GATEHOUSE AND SOUTH COURTYARD WALLS TO CRANBORNE MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: GATEHOUSE AND SOUTH COURTYARD WALLS TO CRANBORNE MANOR HOUSE

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:: GATEHOUSE AND SOUTH COURTYARD WALLS TO CRANBORNE MANOR HOUSE

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Cranborne
National Grid Reference:: SU 05314 13182

Details

CRANBORNE SU 0513

11/3 Gatehouse and south courtyard walls to 18.3.55 Cranborne Manor House

GV II*

Walls and gatehouse enclosing a courtyard, early C17 with various subsequent alterations. Walls in English bond brickwork with tiled coping. Gatehouse in English-bond brickwork with pyramidal roofs with stone-slate margins. It consists of a central gateway flanked by 2 small, 2 storey lodges set diagonally The gateway is of ashlar and has a moulded, semi-circular arch above which are 2 brick merlons. The lodges have square headed stone-mullioned windows with returned labels. (RCHM, Dorset, vol. V, P.11, No.4. Newman, J and Pevsner N. The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972, p.174)

Listing NGR: SU0530813183

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Legacy System number:: 107340
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1975), 11
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 174
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 12 Dorset,

Legal

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