Meerhay Manor

BEAMINSTER MEERHAY ST 40 SE 4/96 Meerhay Manor 12-6-53 - II*

Manor farmhouse. C16, rebuilt c.1610, north west wing added later in C17. Rubble stone and ashlar walls. Thatch roof with stone gable-copings. 3 brick stacks to south east elevation, at left hand gable, right of centre, right hand gable. 2 and 1 1/2 storeys (at right hand). 5 windows 3-light hollow-chamfered stone mullions with separate labels over. Iron casements with tension-bars, or C20 metal casements, small leaded lights. Bay-w1nsaw with 3-light hollow-chamfered stone mullions, leaded lights and hipped slate roof over, C20, at left hand end. First floor with 2 and 3-light mullions inserted. Front door, slightly left of centre, stone surround with Tudor- arch head and sunk spandrels. No label over the lintel. Door is 3 planks wide and studded. Rear elevation has 4- and 6-light stone mullion windows. Door with moulded stone jambs. Rear north west wing, 2 storeys with attics, 2 and 4-light hollow-chamfered mullions with separate labels. Interior: roof of jointed-cruck construction with collar-beams. 2 sets of wide through-purlins. 7 bays, probably C16. Tie-beams inserted in C17, with creation of a bedroom floor. Ground floor, south west end with Tudor arch moulded-stone fireplace with spiral stone steps set in to the left of it. Kitchen fireplace at opposite end with wooden lintel, and small 2-light window beside it. Bread oven in left hand side. Rear wing also of jointed-cruck construction with inserted queen-struts. Staircase in rear wing of 2 returned flights, turned balusters, and thin moulded handrail, late C17. Re-used plank-and-muntin upstairs. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 26 (50).

Listing NGR: ST4851402642