Listed Building record MDO13222 - Jerrards, Sandford Orcas

House with attached outbuildings. C16 core to south end of house. C17 rebuilding to north of this, with date 1616 on porch. C17 service-wing to south. C20 extension of house to north. Rubble-stone walls. Stone slate roof, with stone gable-copings, and C20 gable to front at right hand.

(ST 62062048) Jerrards (NR). (!)

The house is early 17th century, but the south part is late 15th or early 16th century. A gabled porch has the date 1616 (2). Grade II (3). The outbuildings consist of a late 17th or early 18th century pigeon house, a 16th century barn, two other buildings of probable 17th-18th century date, and a gateway which contains re-set 17th century jambs (2). All Grade II (3). (2-3)

As described. See ground photo. (4)

"Jerards" (Name revised (a)). A good architectural example of the period. The house has a modern N wing, dated 1921, built in the early style. All the buildings are exceptionally well maintained. (5)

<1> Historic England, Historic England Archive, BB44/01404 (Index). SDO14738.

A view of Jerards at Sandford Orcas from the north-west

<2> Historic England, Historic England Archive, OP24627 (Index). SDO14738.

A view of Jerards at Sandford Orcas from the north-west This print was received by the National Buildings Record in February 1941.

<3> Historic England, Historic England Archive, OP24628 (Index). SDO14738.

A view of Jerards at Sandford Orcas from the north-west.

<4> DOE (HHR), 1950, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Sherborne Rural District 1950, 30 (Scheduling record). SDO17394.

<5> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 198 PLAN (Monograph). SDO97.

<6> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West) (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(3) JERRARDS, house and outbuildings, 620 yards S.S.W. of the church. The House is of two storeys with attics; the walls are of rubble and the roofs are covered with stone slates. The S. part of the main block of the house was built probably late in the 15th or early in the 16th century; the rest of the main block with the porch on the E. and the two small wings on the W. was built early in the 17th century, and to the same period belongs the kitchen-wing on the S. There is a modern extension on the N. The E. Front (Plate 158) of the main block has an original buttress at the S. end; the windows are of the 17th century and of two and four square-headed lights; the outer archway of the porch has moulded imposts and a round head with strapwork-ornament; above it is a band of strapworkornament with the date 1616 and a cornice; in the gable is a lozenge-shaped panel with a shield of the arms of Gerrard. The W. Front (Plate 158) has two small gabled wings of three storeys; the windows, where old, are of the 17th century, mostly with labels; those in the N. wing are of four lights and the lowest has a transom; in the S. wing the top window has a pediment; in the modern wall, between the bays, is a lozenge-shaped panel with a crowned lion. The Kitchen Wing retains some 17th-century windows, partly reset, and a doorway of the same period with moulded jambs and four-centred arch. Inside the building, the Entrance Hall has a 17th-century fireplace with moulded jambs and four-centred arch in a square head; the doorways are of the same period and have moulded jambs and four-centred arches. The Writing Room in one of the W. wings has a 17th-century fireplace and some reused panelling. In the modern wing is a reset 17th-century fireplace with moulded jambs and four-centred arch in a square head with a band of conventional carving above. On the first floor, one 17th-century fireplace is preserved.'

<7> Rigg, J, Field Investigators Comments JR, F1 JR 04-JUL-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1255.

<8> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1962 (Map). SWX1540.

(ST 62062048) Jerrards (NR)

<9> Stone, J W, Field Investigators Comments JWS, F2 JWS 12-JUN-75 (Unpublished document). SDO11902.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 199879 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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