The Manor House

ST 50 SE RAMPISHAM RAMPISHAM VILLAGE

3/141 The Manor House 12.6.53 GV II

Manor House. Early C17, remodelled internally late C19, and with early C20 additions on the east and north-west. Rubble- stone and dressed stone walls with ashlar quoins. Roman tile roofs, hipped. Stone and brick stacks on south ridge, and brick on north-west wing. Two storeys and attics. Entrance front, 3 windows then north-west range, 2 storey porch, gabled, left of centre. Mullion-and-transom windows, mainly of 4 lights, with separate labels over the ground floor windows. Iron casements, leaded. Porch entrance has a depressed- arch head with separate label over. Plank door inside. South elevation: 5 windows, also of mullion-and-transom type, with 2-light windows over. C20 dormers inserted on the north and south elevations. Depressed-arch doorway at centre, with separate label over. High up on this wall is a small round dial, dated 1608. Interior: completely remodelled, late C19. South-west room has an overmantel made up of C17, fragments from the former screen mentioned in Hutchins; it has a frieze with fruit and swags; there are fragments from the same source in the north-east room. Both rooms have panelled C17 doors with elaborate enrichment over the doorways and scrolled cresting. Fragment of early C16 glass with a red rose and a number of C14 slip-tiles found near the house and including shields-of-arms of Bryan. (RCHM).

(RCHM Dorset I, p192(6). J Hutchins, History of Dorset vol II, p694, 3rd ed. 1861-74).

Listing NGR: ST5617502264