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

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

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