14,16 And 18 And Attached Front Walls And Railings The Manor House

DORCHESTER MANOR FARM ROAD SU5794 (East side) 5/106 No.12 (The Manor House) and 18/07/63 Nos.14,16 and 18 and attached front walls and railings (Formerly listed as Manor House, Queen Street)

GV II

Manor house, now house and flats. Early C17, remodelled and extended C18, c.1800 and early C19. Stucco walls; old plain-tile and Welsh-slate roofs with brick stacks. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys plus attics. 4-window front of main range has Gothic glazing bars, stucco label moulds and a crenellated parapet; the windows are sashes at first floor and casements at ground floor. The doorway, to left of centre, has a crenellated porch with 4-centre arched entrance. Hipped roof. The parapet returns to right, forming a pediment over an arched first-floor window. To left, is a 3-storey hipped-roofed service wing of about 1800, now 3 flats. Parallel rear range is probably early C19 and has a shallow-pitched hipped slate roof on a symmetrical 3-window arrangement with 12-pane first-floor sashes and a doorway, in a trellis porch, flanked by canted bay windows. Interior: room to left of entrance has intersecting heavy ovolo-moulded beams and a fireplace with a chamfered segmental stole arch. Front courtyard is partly enclosed by a C19 brick wall and iron railings and gates, with a gas lamp on one gatepost.

Listing NGR: SU5795794305