Manor Farmhouse

Detached house, formerly farmhouse, dating from the late 16th and early 17th centuries with early 19th-century alterations. Located on All Saints' Road in Wyke Regis, Weymouth.

The building is constructed from large squared Portland stone blocks with ashlar dressings and a slate roof. It comprises a two-part structure: an earlier, lower unit to the left and a mid-17th-century range to the right, built on a slightly larger scale.

The earlier range is one storey with an attic, featuring a flat-roofed 12-pane sash dormer above a 4-light stone casement with a recessed hollow-mould mullion and drip-course. A gable entrance doorway (under reconstruction at the time of survey) and small stack are positioned in the left gable. The later range rises to two storeys with two windows: a small 6-pane casement in a chamfered surround to the first-floor left, and a full-height canted 19th-century bay with 8:12:8-pane sashes and cornices at each level with rendered skirts. A 6-panel flush door with simple pilaster doorcase provides entry. The drip-mould continues across the full width except where cut out above the door and bay window. Stone eaves moulding is stopped to short returns, and the gables feature saddle-back copings on bold shaped kneelers. The right gable contains a very large stone stack, stepped out on large dressed stone corbels above 2-light stone hollow-chamfered mullioned casements, which extend as a parapet with small slits to a valley gutter outlet. The rear wall in two storeys has three replacement sashes at each level and a central doorway.

The interior retains significant historic features. The central entrance has stone flooring and a 19th-century straight-flight stair with stick balustrade and parallel landing. The main parlour to the right contains a large stone fireplace with a 4-centred moulded arch on moulded jambs with stops; the central stone has dropped and a later small fireplace was inserted to the right, though reconstruction is intended. Large square lateral beams, formerly lathed and plastered, traverse the space, with one carried over the bay window. Remains of 17th-century panelling survive. To the left of the entry, the kitchen occupies what may have been the parlour of the earlier house, featuring a reconstructed open fireplace and an original 9-compartment ceiling with deep chamfered beams. The ceiling stops short of the fireplace wall by approximately 0.9 metres, with the lateral beam to the right absorbed into the wall. Joists are set flush with the beam extrados and run in alternate directions between compartments. The roofs have been substantially restructured, though principal members remain in the later range.

This is the most substantial remaining secular building predating the 18th century in this early village settlement. The former holding lies immediately west of All Saints' Church on Portland Road.