Mappercombe Manor House is a Grade I listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1951. A C17 Manor house. 1 related planning application.
Mappercombe Manor House
- WRENN ID
- hollow-oriel-peregrine
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1951
- Type
- Manor house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mappercombe Manor House is a manor house dating from the early 17th century, with a 15th-century southeast corner and a late 17th-century northwest range. The building features dressed stone walls and a clay tile roof adorned with stone gable copings and moulded ogee kneelers. There are brick stacks from around 1900 located just below the ridge on the left of the center of the main range, behind the ridge on the south range, and at the front and rear eaves of the northwest range.
The 15th-century part of the house is one bay and two storeys high, with a ground floor featuring a three-light mullion window (ovolo) and a trefoil-headed lancet above. The gable wall has a two-light trefoil-headed window with a label and carved head-stops. The south range is two storeys with basements and has three windows with four, five, and four-light stone mullions (ovolos). It also features a stone plat-band and individual cornice-labels for the ground floor windows, while the first-floor windows lack labels. The original entrance was located at the center of this range.
The northwest range, which is connected to the front block by a two-bay rear wing, is also two storeys high and has five windows with white limestone mullions (ovolos) topped with separate classical cornices. The doorway, approximately at the center, features moulded stone jambs and a very depressed-arch head, with a sundial displaying a ram's head and swag above it. The north block of the house is early 20th century, two storeys with attics and three windows, along with tall 20th-century brick stacks. The present entrance porch, located on the east side, dates from the 19th century and has a four-centred entrance with a blocked bull's eye and a plank door.
Inside, the west room of the south range features a 17th-century plaster frieze with running vine ornamentation, along with a stone fireplace that has an architrave, pulvinated frieze, cornice, and a blank shield in the middle of the frieze. The room above also has a similar plaster frieze. In the upper room of the small southeast wing, possibly a chapel, there is a recess with a trefoiled head in the south wall. The northwest range contains a reset 17th-century overmantel with four panelled bays featuring enriched divisions and panels painted with shields of arms.
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