THE MANOR HOUSE

THE MANOR HOUSE, MANOR ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1305155
Date first listed:: 13-Dec-1984
List Entry Name:: THE MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE MANOR HOUSE, MANOR ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1305155
Date first listed:: 13-Dec-1984
List Entry Name:: THE MANOR HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE MANOR HOUSE, MANOR ROAD

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:: THE MANOR HOUSE, MANOR ROAD

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Studland
National Grid Reference:: SZ 03660 82689

Details

SZ 0382 STUDLAND MANOR ROAD (East Side)

8/86 The Manor House

- II

Country house now used as hotel. Built 1825 as a "marine villa" for the Rt. Hon. George Bankes (Pevsner) and enlarged several times in C19. Roughcast walls, stone slate roof, part gabled, part hipped, of irregular outline and broken by turrets. Plastered stacks, some with stone caps with quatrefoil panels. In picturesque style. Irregular plan. Part one-storey and attic, part 2-storey; part 2-storey and attic. All windows with diamond pattern lead lights. On main entrance front, right-hand section has a projecting canted bay with hipped roof. Single-light windows on ground floor. On first floor, each face has a projecting curved-headed window, under bracketed gables. Left of the bay, on ground floor, flat-roofed porch with oak doors under stone gable with coat of arms. On first floor a gabled window as in the bay. Right of the bay, on ground floor, lean-to projection with 2-light curved headed window. On first floor a gabled window as in the bay. Left of this block, a lower link building with a 3-light curved-headed window on ground floor and, on first floor a gabled window as in the bay. Left of this a taller canted bay, with hipped roof, of 2 storeys and attic. This has, on ground floor, a 3-light mullioned window flanked by cross-pattern mullioned and transomed windows. On first floor, 3 curved-headed mullioned and transomed windows. One hipped dormer in attic. Left of this a circular tower with inset carved traceried panel. Left of this various lower additions, some with lean-to roofs, some with flat roofs,and including lower part of a second tower. Internally, a re-set C18 stair with barley sugar balusters and carved spandrils. Re-set C18 fireplace on first floor. Gothic style plaster vaulted ceiling in one first floor room. Various sections of C17 carved panelling - re-set. A National Trust property. RCHM Monument 16. (Dorset Vol. II). See also Pevsner. "Buildings of England, Dorset".

Listing NGR: SZ0366082689

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Legacy System number:: 109096
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Inventory of Dorset, (1970)

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