Old Manor Cottage

WINTERBOURNE STEEPLETON SY 68 NW STEEPLETON VILLAGE

8/162 Old Manor Cottage (formerly 26-1-56 listed as House 90 yds W. of GV II church)

Farmhouse, now private dwelling. Late C16, with Cl7 heightening. Coursed rubble-stone walls, with Ham Stone dressings. Thatch roof with gable ends and stone gable-copings. Brick stacks at left hand gable, ridge right of centre backing on to cross-passage, both C17 or C18, and at right hand gable, rebuilt C20. Plan: 3-unit house with rear range at right angles from the centre, with access through from the cross-passage. 2 storeys. 4 windows, 4-light hollow-chamfered mullions, iron casements with rectangular leaded lights, separate labels over; 3-light stone mullions over, with separate labels to the two at left hand end. Doors: original doorway, right of centre with moulded stone jambs and depressed-arch head. Plank door C20. Doorway, left of centre, inserted, with similar moulded jambs, head, though with label over. Plank door, C20. Rear range gabled to south to same height as ridge, 3- and 2-light stone mullionswith labels over, C16. Doorway in west angle with main range, plank and glazed, C20.

Interior: central (hall) room has compartmented ceiling-beams, an open fireplace. Newel stair in south-west angle (corner of kitchen). (RCHM Dorset II, p.395 (3))

Listing NGR: SY6280589805