Muston Manor
MUSTON MANOR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1304719
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Muston Manor
- Statutory Address:
- MUSTON MANOR
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1304719
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Muston Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- MUSTON 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:
- MUSTON MANOR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Winterborne Kingston
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 87340 97673
Details
WINTERBORNE KINGSTON SY 89 NE MUSTON
7/153 Muston Manor
II*
Detached house, late C17 with C18 porch and addition to left. Flemish bond brickwork, early parts having burnt headers; flint plinth. Half-hipped, thatched roof with 2 brick stacks part way in along the ridge. One and a half storeys, 5 window range. Central 3 bays project forward slightly. 2-light, C19/20 casements with glazing bars, those to the ground floor under segmental brick heads. Central 2-storey porch, probably in imitation of that at nearby Anderson Manor; round brick arch with brick imposts and stone keystone; upper floor has probably reset single-light stone window with elliptical head; plank door. To the east gable and rear wall are some windows with heavy, pegged timber surrounds, some with fixed glazing and some with wrought-iron casements containing leaded-lights. Some blocked openings to rear.
Interior features; these are of very high quality for a small dwelling; many rooms have fielded panelling with moulded dado rail; west room has moulded cornice with egg and dart enrichment and an angle fireplace with moulded surround and heavy keystone; main room has a large open fireplace with chamfered bressummer and continuous jambs; kitchen has chamfered stone fireplace with continuous jambs; the east room upstairs has a fireplace with a bolection-moulded surround and 2 other rooms have coved and segmental plastered ceilings. (RCHM, Dorset, vol.IV, p.301/2, no.5., Newman, J. and Pevsner, N. The Buildings of England, Dorset, 1972, p.481.)
Listing NGR: SY8734097673
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103569
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 301 302
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 481
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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