Up Cerne Manor House

Up Cerne Manor House is a manor house dating from the early 17th century, though it may include some earlier work. The service wing features a west front from the late 17th or early 18th century and has undergone significant alterations and additions in 1892, 1909, and later in the 20th century. It was built for Sir Robert Mellor. The structure is made of dressed rubble and ashlar, with the service wing having a brick facade on the west side, constructed in Flemish bond with flared headers and some diamond patterning. The roofs are stone slated, gable-ended, with stone copings and various stone stacks.

The manor is two storeys high with attics and has an irregular arrangement of windows. The main range is designed in an E plan with forward-facing gables. It features stone mullioned windows with 2, 3, and 5 lights, which have square heads and 4-centred lights, most with returned labels. There is a single-storey gabled porch with a 4-centred doorway. The west facade of the service wing has stone mullioned windows with 4-centred arch lights set beneath 3-centred brick relieving arches, along with a 4-centred arch doorway. The east front showcases two large 19th-century canted bay windows that are two storeys high, with stone mullioned windows. Other windows are primarily stone mullioned, most with 4-centred lights, while some in the service range have straight-headed lights, also with returned labels.

To the west of the service range, there is a single-storey wing that appears to be largely from the 20th century but incorporates some earlier stonework, including a possibly 20th-century corbelled ashlar dovecote. Several pieces of stone carving, including foliage carved corbels and ballflower and head corbels from around 1300, have been reset in the walls, likely taken from Cerne Abbey. Internally, the house is mostly from the 20th century, with some original features such as chamfered beams and fireplace bressummers.