Benville Manor

CORSCOMBE BENVILLE LANE ST 50 SW 12.6.53 5/192 Benville Manor - II*

Manor House. Early C17 H-Plan house, with C18 and C19 alterations. South elevation: Rubble-stone walls, plain tile roof with stone gable- copings at ends, right hand end with ball-finial. One stone stack at left hand gable, 2 storeys and attics. 5 windows, canted stone bays, two to each side of front door. 4-light stone mullions with one canted. Hollow chamfers. Labels over ground floor windows. C20 metal casements with fixed lead lights. Centre-bay, altered in C19 with a built-up gable, coping and triple concrete stack. 3-light hollow-chamfered stone mullion to first floor. Label over. Front door at centre, wooden with muntins, C20. Tuscan Order stone porch with flat entablature, C19. West elevation: brick on a stone plinth. Flemish bond with burnt headers. 2 storeys. c4 windows. 3-light square stone mullions with continuous architrave, C18. Stone window insertions, C20. Back door with stone Tudor-arch head and continuous label over. Interior: South-east room with 5 panels of early C16 glass, (a) Churchill(?) quartering argent a cheveron between 3 roundels sable, and 2 damaged coats. (b) Canant. (c) Penny of Toller Whelme. (d) Arundell. (e) has lost its surface paint. Also fragments of late medieval church glass. South-west room: stone fireplace with straight- chamfered jambs and tongued stops, with a Tudor-arch head. Massive stone lintel. Part of moulded ceiling-beam, early C16, possibly re-used. Chasuble, red silk with fleur-de-lys, cl45O English, decorated with figures of saints and secular figures, flowers and seraphim. Attached walls and gate-piers, to south elevation, c C18. Rubble-stone walls with coping-stones, ramped to corners with large ball-finials. East elevation has 2 stone gate-piers with ball-finials on hollow-chamfered spurs. Source: RCHM Dorset I, p 106 (3).

Listing NGR: ST5342803708