Abbey House

Abbey House is a manor house, possibly originally a priest's house, dating to the early 16th century. It was enlarged at the rear around 1860 and to the east in 1914. The original range has brick walls with decorative elements in burnt headers, stone dressings, and a flint plinth. It is topped by a tiled roof featuring stone eaves courses and coped gables. A brick stack is located at the right end, embellished with a battlemented cap. There are diagonally-set shafts rising from the eaves near the centre of the front, consisting of two square shafts and one set diagonally.

Originally designed with a three-room plan and a screens passage, the house is two stories high with an attic. A moulded string course runs along the first-floor level. All windows have arched lights, stone mullions, leaded glass, and hoodmolds with shield stops. On the ground floor, a pair of French doors occupy the opening of an original window, with the remains of a three-light window above the doors. To the right of these are a two-light, a three-light, and two tall, mullioned, and transomed windows. The first floor features a three-light window at the left end, followed by a two-light window bearing the initials "W" and "R" (presumably for William Rolle, who was Rector from 1505-21). The building also has a small window under the eaves, a single light window below the stack, and two two-light windows to the right.

The rear range, dating around 1860, creates a double-pile plan, built in an 18th-century style with a present entrance and sash windows with glazing bars. A service range was added in 1914, at the right end; it replicates the style of the original range and is dated in burnt headers.

Inside the original range, the parlour at the left end contains moulded, intersecting ceiling beams (some are missing) and a four-centred arched stone fireplace with an early 17th-century carved oak overmantel. To the right is the enlarged original screens passage, showing mortices for a former screen. The original hall has an 18th-century fireplace, and the dining room features deep, chamfered ceiling beams and a four-centred arched stone fireplace. The first-floor parlour chamber also has a four-centred arched stone fireplace. The remainder of the first floor retains a roof of jointed cruck construction with wind bracing, suggesting it originally comprised a single, long room open to the roof. Deep chamfered tie beams are now incorporated into the first-floor ceiling. A four-centered arched opening with an original door leads to a cupboard, possibly originally a garderobe. The 19th-century rear range incorporates interior features in an 18th-century style. A carved 18th-century fireplace has been reset within the service range. The building is notable as possibly the earliest domestic use of brick in Dorset.