Mappercombe Manor House

SY 59 NW POWERSTOCK MAPPERCOMBE 4-12-1951 8/191 Mappercombe Manor House

GV I

Manor House. Early C17, with C15 south-east corner. Late C17 north- west range. Dressed stone walls. Clay tile roof with stone gable- copings and moulded ogee kneelers. Brick stacks, of c.1900, just below ridge, left of centre, main range, behind ridge on south range, north-west range front eaves and rear eaves. C15 part, one bay, 2 storeys. Ground 3-light mullion (ovolo). Trefoil-headed lancet over. Gable-wall has a 2-light trefoil-headed window with a label and carved head-stops. South range: 2 storeys and basements. 3 windows, 4-, 5-, 4-light stone mullions (ovolos). Stone plat-band and individual cornice-labels to ground floor windows. First floor windows without labels. Entrance originally at centre of this range. North- west range joined to front block by a 2 bay rear wing. North West range: 2 storeys, 5 windows, white limestone mullions (ovolos) with separate classical cornices over. Doorway , approximately at centre with moulded stone jambs and very depressed-arch head. Sundial with ram's head and swag above doorway. North block of house is early C20. 2 storeys and attics. 3 windows. Tall C20 brick stacks. Present entrance porch on east side, Cl9, with a 4-centred entrance and blocked bull's eye. Plank door. Interior: west room of the south range, C17 plaster frieze of running vine-ornament. Stone fireplace with architrave, pulvinated frieze, cornice and a blank shield in the middle of the frieze. Room above has a similar plaster frieze. Upper room in small South east wing (?chapel), recess with a trefoiled head in the south wall. North-west range, reset C17 overmantel of 4 panelled bays with enriched divisions, panels have painted shields-of-arms. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 184(4).

Listing NGR: SY5120695122