Listed Building record MDO13807 - Manor Farmhouse, Fontmell Magna

House of two storeys with attics, with ashlar and rubble walls and tiled roofs. Seventeenth century with eighteenth-century additions. Plan class F. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

A two storied farmhouse, with walls of rough ashlar and a tiled roof, dates from the 17th century. Grade II. <2>

'Manor Farm' (name confirmed) remains as described by DOE (2). The building is in a good state of preservation; it is not architecturally outstanding. <3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1962 (Map). SWX1540.

ST 86901775 Manor Farm formerly (NAT) Manor House (NR).

<2> DOE (HHR), Oct 1951, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Shaftesbury RD (Scheduling record). SDO17584.

8 October 1951

<3> Barrett, G, Various, Field Investigators Comments GB, F1 GB 17-FEB-78 (Unpublished document). SDO17369.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 23-24 (Monograph). SDO99.

Manor Farm (86921776), house, of two storeys with attics, with walls of aslar and orf rubble and with tiled roofs, dates from the 17th century; the plan is of class F. In the lower storey the W. front has stone windows of four square-headed lights with hollow-chamfered surrounds and moulded labels; the doorway has a chamfered square head and continuous jambs; in the upper storey the windows are modern. The E. doorway is similar to that on the W. Inside, a chamfered ceiling beam is exposed in the N. ground-floor room. The main partition walls are of uncertain date, but presumably occupy original positions if they are not themselves original. The partition between the middle room and the staircase is of reset 17th-century oak panelling in four heights; above, the stairs have 18th-century tressllis balustrading and a dog-gate at the top. Added to the E. side of the original range is a small service building, perhaps of the 18th century.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205902 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Mar 21 2022 1:45PM