Chideock Manor With Attached Wall And Outbuildings On North Side

SY 49 SW CHIDEOCK NORTH CHIDEOCK

6/87 Chideock Manor with 7.8.52 attached wall and outbuildings on north side.

G.V. II

Manor House in own grounds. c.1810. Architect unknown. Lias stone, ashlar walls with fine jointing. Coursed rubble-stone plinth. 2 stone plat-bands. Slate roofs. Rendered brick stacks at left and right hand parapets. Shape of roof not visible. 2 storeys. 4 bays: sash-windows with thin glazing bars and crown glass. Tripartite sashes to the segmental bay 3. Stone cills. Bay 2 has a square porch to ground and first floors. Front doorway with plain pilasters. Tuscan capitals, moulded semi-circular head and projecting key. 2 leaf front door with fielded panels. Large semi-circular fanlight with glazing bars. Recessed panel over. Parapet with flat stone coping rebuilt in concrete. South elevation with big segmental window bay. North elevation with the side entrance, round-headed with imposts and projecting key. Interior: plaster cornices with running scroll and rosettes on the soffit. Dining room with inserted stone fireplace, C16. Square lintel with 4 panels bearing 2 blank shields, Tudor rose, patera. Old kitchen. Stone fireplace inserted, C16. Tudor arch under a straight head. Foliage spandrels, left spandrel with /Xh M(SIC). Lintel has unusual framed with with rose at centre. Hall staircase with plain mahogany hand-rail. Domed oval light over.

Attached brick wall in Flemish bond, c 1810, with two re-used C17 stone mullion windows inserted. C16 stone fireplace lintel (Tudor arch) re-used as a door- head. Beaters' Room attached on north end, early C19, brick walls with slate roof over. Polygonal. 2 light windows with elliptical heads and a doorway. "RCHM, Dorset I", p 95 (3).

Listing NGR: SY4204593479