Mapperton Rectory

Mapperton Rectory is a former rectory built between 1699 and 1703, featuring dressed stone walls and a plain tile roof with stone gable copings. The building has stone stacks at both the left and right gables, adorned with ogee cornices. It stands two storeys high with attics and has seven windows, primarily consisting of two-light ovolo stone mullions, although there are single-light windows beside the porch. Each window has a separate label above it. The windows are fitted with 20th-century metal casements that include glazing bars.

At the center of the façade is a gabled two-storey porch with a front doorway that has straight-chamfered jambs and a very depressed arch head, also featuring a separate label above. The lintel is inscribed with "restored 1890. Paulet Compton." The door itself is a plank door with two main panels and is studded, dating from the 18th or 19th century. The south gable wall is supported by two large stepped buttresses.

Inside, there is an inscription "I.P, 1701" on the door lintel of the north gable wall, which is now internal. The interior arrangements have been significantly altered in the 19th and 20th centuries. The rectory was built by John Powell, who was the rector of South Mapperton from 1698, and the building accounts for the construction are preserved at the Dorset County Record Office.