Manor House

WINTERBORNE CLENSTON ST 80 SW 14-7-55 6/95 Manor House GV I

Manor house, early C16 with C17 additions. Banded flint and ashlar and rubble with ashlar dressings. Stone-slate roofs with brick end stacks and stacks to ends of original range. Projecting flint and ashlar chimneybreast right. Part 2, part 3 storeys, 7 bays. Original facade approximately symmetrical, C17 addition left. 3 and 4-light stone-mullioned windows with moulded labels with head stops. Those to the upper floor of the C16 part have 4-centred heads to the lights. Central to the early range is a 2 storey octagonal stair turret and porch which is corbelled out in a series of mouldings to square plan at eaves level and is surmounted by a gable. The main doorway in the side of the tower has a moulded, 4-centred head with continuous jambs.

Internal features (RCHM): original C16 roof of 10 collar-beam trusses with cambered collars, chamfered arch-braces and cusped wind-bracing; original C16 coffered ceiling throughout the original range with moulded, intersecting beams; some original fireplaces; C17 panelling and doors.

See RCHM for complete description. (RCHM, Dorset vol.III, p.293-5, no.2. Newman J. and Pevsner, N. The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972, p.477-9.)

Listing NGR: ST8387203130