Listed Building: THE MANOR HOUSE (395900)

CORSCOMBE TOLLER WHELME ST 50 SW 12.6.53 5/227 The Manor House, formerly listed as Manor Farmhouse GV II* Manor House. c C15 rear range, much altered, C17 front range, with C18 extension at rear. Rear: rubble-stone walls, some rendered, with asbestos slate roofs. Diagonal buttresses with 2 set-offs, at south end wall, one internal. Remains of diagonal buttress at north end. 2 storeys. Renewed 2-light wooden casements. Porch, of stone, with a hipped stone slate roof, set in angle between medieval and C17 range. 4-centred arch with moulded jambs. North end of range has a stone fireplace with a square head and moulded jambs, c6 foot wide, 5 foot high. East wall has a blocked pointed- arch doorhead with moulded jambs. C17 range: rubble-stone walls with a thatch roof and stone gable-copings. Brick stacks at left hand gable, right of centre, and right hand gable. 2 storeys with attics. 4 windows. 2-light hollow-chamfered stone mullions with separate labels over. Iron casements with glazing-bars. No door on the main range. Pentice-roofed extension at right hand, rubble-stone with slate roof. C18 rear range, with hollow-chamfered stone mullions of 2 and 4 lights, with labels. Wood marginal glazing-bars to windows. Interior: stone flags. Mid-chamfered ceiling-beams. Small Cl7 fireplace with keyed wooden lintel and stone jambs. Source: RCHM Dorset I, pl07(5). Listing NGR: ST5171901489

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