Manor House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1961. Manor house. 1 related planning application.
Manor House
- WRENN ID
- watchful-passage-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1961
- Type
- Manor house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Manor House is a building with a 15th-century core, significantly altered and extended in the 17th and early 18th centuries. A datestone inscribed 1706 FW is visible on the south-east gable. The south range was refenestrated in the 19th century, and a 20th-century extension, designed in the 18th-century style, was added to the north side. The building is constructed of rubble-stone with clay-tile roofs and brick and stone stacks at the gable ends.
The south-east range has five windows, featuring 2-light and 3-light mullion-and-transom windows with ovolo mouldings dating to the 19th century. The upper part of this wall was rebuilt in the 17th century, and modern metal casements are also present. Two reset 15th-century figured corbels are incorporated into the facade. The south-east wing is gabled, with the 1706 datestone on the south-east side. The north side of this range has eight windows with early 18th-century 2-light straight-chamfered stone mullions with cornices. The south side features four mullioned windows with a 19th-century 2-storey canted bay towards the south end, wooden casements, and a stone mullion on the first floor. It includes a parapet with a quatrefoil frieze. A doorway in the angle has stone jambs and a pointed arch, with plain shields in the spandrels, leading to a 20th-century two-leaf glazed door.
A short, single-storey, gabled projecting range is located at the south-west corner, with a carved fleuron finial and a stone slate roof. This range has pointed-arch doorways on each side with moulded jambs and plank doors. An upper gabled range, dated 1912 J.M.S., has a 3-light mullion window to the east and a segmental 3-light oriel window to the south. The north-west entrance front was extended outwards in the late 20th century in the 18th-century style, featuring two storeys and four windows with sash glazing-bars in flush frames. The front door, located on the right, is an 8-panel door with moulded consoles and a pediment, dating to the 20th century.
Inside, the Dining Room has heavy ceiling beams. The kitchen area includes an original fireplace with moulded jambs and lintel. An adjoining closet above the kitchen is accessed through an original doorway with an oak frame and pointed head; part of the floor is hinged to reveal a hiding-hole with a floor approximately 3 feet lower. This space is believed to have been used as a hiding place for Charles II after the Battle of Worcester.
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