Mapperton Rectory is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1951. A Post-Medieval Rectory.

Mapperton Rectory

WRENN ID
stranded-pewter-lake
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Country
England
Date first listed
4 December 1951
Type
Rectory
Period
Post-Medieval
Source
Historic England listing

Description

SY 59 NW MAPPERTON MAPPERTON 4-12-1951 8/99 Mapperton Rectory

II*

Former Rectory. 1699-1703 (Building Accounts). Dressed stone walls. Plain tile roof with stone gable-copings. Stone stacks at left and right hand gables, with ogee cornices. 2 storeys with attics. 7 windows, mainly 2-light ovolo stone mullions, though single-light windows in beside porch. Separate labels over all the windows. C20 metal casements with glazing-bars. Gabled two-storey porch at centre. Front doorway with straight-chamfered jambs and very depressed arch head, Separate label over. Inscribed on lintel: "restored 1890. Paulet Compton." Plank door with 2 main panels, studded. C18/19. South gable-wall has 2 big stepped buttresses. Interior: "I.P, 1701" on door lintel of north gable wall, (now internal). Internal arrangements much altered, C19 and C20.

The muse was built by John Powell, rector of South Mapperton from 1698. The Building Accounts survive: D.C.R.O. P81/IN2. Published by the Dorset Record Society, 1983 (ed. R. Machin). Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 156(3).

Listing NGR: SY5028999756

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