Manor Farmhouse

WINTERBOURNE STEEPLETON SY 68 NW STEEFLETON VILLAGE

8/164 Manor Farmhouse 26-1-56 GV II*

Manor farmhouse. Early C17, with later heightening at north end. C18 and C20 alterations to fenestration. Dressed stone and knapped flint walls, banded. Clay-tile roofs with concrete gable-copings. 4 C20 brick stacks, set diagonally on square bases, at gable-ends, on C20 gable to road at south end, and on ridge towards north end. Plan: 4-unit house, with tower-porch at centre. Front elevation (off the road), 2 storeys and attics, 5 windows wide including porch, ground floor openings: 6-light, 3-porch, 4-, C20 door. First floor: 4-light, 3-, porch, 4-, 4-, all with ovolo moulded stone mullions and moulded stone jambs. Separate labels over ground floor. C19 iron casements with lead lights. Tower porch, stone, at centre, gabled, lower than main ridge, with stone coping, entrance has straight-chamfered jambs and segmental head with C20 plank-and-muntin door. Roof has 3 inserted C20 dormers with 3- and 2-light casements. Elevation to road: has irregular 2- and 3-light ovolo-moulded mullions, with C19 casements and leaded lights. Long string- course, now fossilized at half-storey level. 3-light mullion window with flat architrave and mullions, ashlar round arch over with Ham stone key, lighting the staircase, inserted in C18.

Interior of interest, access not obtained, see:

(RCHM Dorset II, p.395 (2))

Listing NGR: SY6271189838