Waddon Manor With Courtyard Walls, Steps and Gate-piers
WADDON MANOR WITH COURTYARD WALLS, STEPS AND GATE-PIERS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1324241
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Waddon Manor With Courtyard Walls, Steps and Gate-piers
- Statutory Address:
- WADDON MANOR WITH COURTYARD WALLS, STEPS AND GATE-PIERS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1324241
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Waddon Manor With Courtyard Walls, Steps and Gate-piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- WADDON MANOR WITH COURTYARD WALLS, STEPS AND GATE-PIERS
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:
- WADDON MANOR WITH COURTYARD WALLS, STEPS AND GATE-PIERS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Portesham
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 62013 85790
Details
SY 68 NW PORTESHAM WADDON
4/199 32/11 Waddon Manor, with courtyard walls, steps and gate-piers 26.1.56
GV I
Manor House. Late C17, extended c.1700 by Henry Chafin. Portesham rubble-stone (north and east ranges) and ashlar (west range) walls. Slate and stone slab (west range) roofs. Ashlar stone stacks with moulded cornices at centre north ridge, at junction of-north and south ridges, two on west ridge. North and east ranges built at right angles, west range rebuilt c.1700. 1701 fire burnt down westernmost range. U-Plan round a small courtyard, open to south. North range: 1½ storeys, 3 bays, 2-light mullion-and-transom windows with moulded architraves, wooden casements and glazing-bars. 2-light dormers with hipped slate roofs. Doorway at centre with square stone architrave and 6-panel door, C20. South-east range: I½ storeys, 4 bays, windows of the above type; bay 2 - door with 4 fielded-panels; bay 4 - 2-leaf plank- door with strap-hinges, round head. One attic window, window has a 2-light cast-iron casement with hipped slate roof. Range used originally as bakehouse and brewhouse. West range: garden elevation: 2 storeys with cellars and attics. Moulded plinth and moulded plat-band. Irregular fenestration, from north to south, one cross-transomed window of above type, walling blocking the formerly projecting western range. 4 bays of sashes having moulded stone cills, stone architraves with small projecting keys. Sashes have thick glazing-bars and crown glass. Interior: west wing, former kitchen: stone fireplace with wide elliptical head of dressed stone voussoirs and ashlar jambs, with single straight chamfer. Staircase of c.1710 with a cut string, turned newels, turned and octagonal balusters, ramped handrail with voluted termination. Doorways have moulded, shouldered architraves with pediments over. 6-panel doors. 'White' Parlour is lined with bolection-moulded panelling, and has fielded-panel window- shutters. The Morning Room and three of the bedrooms have ovolo-moulded and fielded- panelling. Attached front courtyard walls and gate-piers, dressed stone walls, coped. Ashlar stone gate-piers with roll-moulded edges and projecting cornices. Projecting rebates with scroll terminals. Attached ten stone steps up to gate-piers. (RCHM Dorset I, p.243 (8)).
Listing NGR: SY6201385790
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105319
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 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.
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