Loders Court

SY 4994 LODERS MAIN STREET, South Side

9/181 Loders Court 5-9-60 GV II*

Manor House. Late C18, with possible remains of Priory Building in cellars. Stone walls, stuccoed with a flat parapet. Slate roofs hipped. Stuccoed stacks at right front eaves, and left side eaves. 2 storeys. 6 windows (north elevation), sashes with glazing-bars and stone cills. Blind windows at right hand ground. Front door, at centre with 6 ribbed-and-fielded panels. C18. Semi-circular fanlight with 4 glass panels down each side. Stone portico with Roman Doric columns in order; single, coupled, single. Plain stone entablature with a triglyph frieze, C19. Door at left ground, wood with 6 glass panels and a rectangular fanlight over. West front has a mid Cl9 trellis with a flared roof the full width of the ground floor. Interior: south-east room, late C18 marble fireplace-surround with entablature and frieze-panel carved with an urn and ram's head. The staircase~hall has a marble floor, is semi-circular at the south end, and contains its original stair with wrought-iron balusters. RCHM Dorset I, p 139 (3).

Listing NGR: SY4914694302