Listed Building: SYMONDSBURY COLLEGE, FORMERLY LISTED AS THE MANOR HOUSE (401816)

SY 49 SW SYMONDSBURY SYMONDSBURY VILLAGE 6/147 Symondsbury College, 7.8.52 formerly listed as The Manor House G.V. II College, formerly Manor House. Mid C17 with C18 extension and late C19 alterations. Ashlar stone walls. Plain tile roof with gable ends and tile cresting. 3 stone stacks, at left gable, left of centre, right gable. Stone gable copings with a roll moulding on upper face. 2 storeys. 4 windows. 5 and 4 light stone mullion windows, ovolo below cavetto above. No labels to windows, so plain. 2 dormers: tile hung with hipped tile roofs. 2-light casements with leaded lights, C20. Front door at centre, inserted. 4-centred stone head with 2-light mullions to each side, C19. North wings: C19 re- fenestration of C17 core. C19 gables to upstairs windows. East wing: C18. Brick walls in English bond. Tiled roof, hipped at right hand end. Inserted stone mullions of 3 and 4 lights with hollow chamfers, C19. One brick stack behind ridge. Doorway left of centre, wood with horizontal planks. Interior: Hall and West room with massive-wood mantelpieces. Caryatid pilasters with voluted abaci: reconstituted material, C17. Panelling inserted into west room square panels with carved pilaster caryatids at each division. Warrior's heads and vine-scroll. Cornice rail with similar motifs, all in low relief. Extent: c 30 feet x 11 feet on all four walls. Italianate, c C17. "RCHM, Dorset I", p 238 (2). Listing NGR: SY4449493672

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