The Manor House
THE MANOR HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1323898
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANOR HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1323898
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MANOR HOUSE
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:
- THE MANOR HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Poyntington
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 65099 20063
Details
POYNTINGTON ST 62 SE POYNTINGTON VILLAGE 3/110 The Manor House 11.7.51 GV II* Manor House in grounds. Later C15 house, refenestrated in C16 and C17. Restored in C19 and C20. Dressed and rubble-stone walls, with freestone dressings. Clay-tile roofs, throughout, largely rebuilt, C19. Clustered octagonal stone stacks, at junction of north and east ranges, on ridge of east range, at west gable end of north range, on south Hall range. Two storeys and attics, except for south range of one storey. North (entrance) range, courtyard elevation: 6 windows, 2-light hollow-chamfered stone mullions, C19. No labels. C20 metal casements with lead lights. Over gateway, 2-light trefoil-cusped window in a square head. Label with head- stops. Gateway has continuous bracket-moulding and 4-centred head. Outer gates have 2-leaf plank doors. Moulded ceiling-beam in the gate-passage. Door at right hand corner of range has flush-and-fielded panels and one top light, C19. East range, courtyard elevation: 5 windows, 2- and 3-light hollow-chamfered mullions, renewed C19. C16 windows towards south end. Bull's eye, upper left. A 4-light mullion window lights the stairwell bay in the south corner of range. Doorway, right of centre has moulded stone jambs and depressed-arch head. Label over, stopped. Two-leaf plank-and- muntin door, C20. East elevation of the east range has irregular 2- and 3-light stone mullions, C17 and C19. Staircase-block at south-east angle, 2 storeys with 3 two-light mullions, trefoil-cusped. Labels, stopped over. Iron grilles and fixed leaded windows. Hall (south) range: one storey. 2-light mullion-and-transom window, trefoil-cusped in a square head. Buttress, with 2 set-offs, right of this. Blocked doorway. Entrance with depressed-arch head right of this,cC19, with wide 2-leaft plank doors. West wall has a flight of stone steps up to a plank upper door. South elevation has a 4-light stone mullion window with depressed-arch head. East walls of Drawing Room and Hall have 6-light mullion and transom windows. Interior: East range, north room, open fireplace with depressed-arch head, straight-chamfered. C17 overmantel with made-up material. Deep-chamfered ceiling-beam with stepped stops, C16. Door in central lobby: moulded stone jambs and segmental-pointed head, C16. Drawing room, south end has compar- tmented, moulded ceiling-beams, late C16. Open fireplace. Stone stairs in projecting stairwell divide for access to corridor, and room over drawing room c C16. Room over stairs has a stone stoup with pointed head and moulded spandrels. (RCHM, Dorset I, p 187 (2)).
Listing NGR: ST6508820062
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105652
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 187
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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