Godlingston Manor

Godlingston Manor, Washpond Lane

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1323633
Date first listed:: 26-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:: Godlingston Manor
Statutory Address:: Godlingston Manor, Washpond Lane

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1323633
Date first listed:: 26-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:: Godlingston Manor
Statutory Address 1:: Godlingston Manor, Washpond Lane

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:: Godlingston Manor, Washpond Lane

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Swanage
National Grid Reference:: SZ0153780243

Details

This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 July 2018.

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WASHPOND LANE Godlingston Manor

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GV I An important medieval house, incorporating a circular tower, probably defensive in origin. Purbeck Stone walls. Purbeck Stone roof. Stone chimney stacks. According to the RCHM the tower is contemporary with the main part of the house, that is circa 1300, but from the junction of the two structures it appears to be of earlier origin, and may perhaps once have had a timber hall. The main house is of typical medieval form, with an entrance leading into a through-passage. West of this was the service block, with the tower leading off its west end. East of the passage is the hall, originally open to the roof, but floored over in the C17. East of the hall is the parlour/solar block, roofed at right angles to the hall, but rebuilt after a fire in the C19.

When the hall was floored over the rear wall was rebuilt and a staircase block built at the north end of the through passage. (Hutchins, however, states that in the C18 the rear doorway was still visible.) In the C18 a new kitchen wing was built to the rear (north) of the service block. The interior has been drastically remodelled, all the roofs being renewed, and retains few early features, although a C17 fireplace has recently been uncovered in the wall between the hall and the parlour.

The tower has a blocked external door at the front, and arrow-loops in the two upper storeys. Its conical roof is covered with Purbeck Stone. On the main south front, the ground floor of the house has a doorway with a pointed trefoil arch, leading into the through-passage. West of this, in the service block, is a three-light stone mullioned window on the ground floor. On the upper floor, a dormer, with hipped roof, has a similar window. The hall has two stone mullioned windows, of two and three-lights. Above these are two dormers, with hipped roofs, and stone mullioned windows. All these windows are of C17 date. The parlour has a four-light stone mullioned window, with a similar three-light window above it, all of C19 date. In the gable the head of an earlier medieval window has been re-set. The C18 kitchen wing is of two-storeys and has some stone mullioned windows and some modern casements. (RCHM Monument 12.)

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Legacy System number:: 108274
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.