MANOR HOUSE AND STABLES
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II*
List Entry Number: 1304769
Date first listed: 26-Jan-1956
Statutory Address: MANOR HOUSE AND STABLES, CHURCH LANE
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Location
Statutory Address: MANOR HOUSE AND STABLES, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Dorset
District: West Dorset (District Authority)
Parish: Portesham
National Grid Reference: SY 60148 85849
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
SY 6085 PORTESHAM CHURCH LANE
11/171 32/6 Manor House and Stables
26.1.56
GV II*
Detached Manor House. Mid C17 with C19 extension at rear. Dressed stone walls and
chamfered plinth. Continuous string-course raised over front door. Slate roofs with
stone gable-copings with ovolo-moulded kneelers. C19 brick stacks at each gable. Eaves
raised, probably C19. 2 storeys, with deep cellars and attics. 3 windows (first floor):
5 windows (ground floor), straight-chamfered mullions, C19 wooden casements with hori-
zontal glazing-bars. Front door, just right of centre, with very depressed-arch head and
chamfered jambs. Plank-and-mutin door with strap hinges. One niche each side of the
front doorway with foliate ornament in the spandrels, hacked off, all in a square-headed
frame. Rear elevation, depressed-arch doorway at centre, with plank-and mutin door.
Large C19 extension to south-east, rubble-stone walls and a slate roof. Canted bay on
south wall, with sashes and glazing-bars. Interior: re-set panelling in hall with
square framing and flat strap work to upper string. Fireplace in hall, with moulded
stone jambs and concrete lintel over. Mid-chamfered ceiling-beams. Attached stabling
and store at west end, with rubble-stone walls, and plain tile roof, hipped. Irregular
fenestration and plank stable-doors to street. Store attached to the south, with a
hipped slate roof and brick stack at the north gable. 2 storeys. Windows, C20 insertions
(fixed. Plank doorway to lane with segmental head.
(RCHM Dorset II, p. 243 (5)).
Listing NGR: SY6014885849
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 105292
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 243
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing