Listed Building record MDO17375 - The Manor House, Winfrith Newburgh

A house built in the later part of the sixteenth century, with later additions and alterations, mainly in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The house has an L-shaped plan, though the rear wing has been shortened, and the building has walls of brick and stone, and the roof is covered partly in tiles and partly in stone, with brick chimney stacks. Also known as Winfrith Fields Farmhouse. The original service wing is situated to the north of the main house, and has been converted to a separate dwelling. Surviving original features in the interior are reported to include oak ceiling beams, door frames and a staircase.

Winfrith Fields Farmhouse, of two storeys and attics, also known as the Manor House is a brick building with some coursed rubble. It was built in the late 16th century but extensively remodelled in the early 19th century. <2>

Manor House (formerly listed as Winfrith Fields Farmhouse).<3>

A late 16th century house which was considerably altered in the 18th and early 19th century. It has brick and stone walls with a part tiled, part stone slated roof. The house is L-shaped in plan with the rear 16th century wing, which was originally longer, was shortened in the early 19th century. The main block of the house is of two storeys with attics. There is a central panelled door with fanlight, and raised cement surround. The ground floor has two double-hung sash windows with centre glazing bars whilst the first floor has four double-hung sash windows with glazing bars. The attic has three hipped dormers with casements with glazing bars. The rear wing is of two storeys; the south elevation has, on the ground floor, one double-hung sash window with glazing bars and a blocked doorway. The first floor has one horizontally sliding sash window with glazing bars and two blocked windows. There is a small extension in angle between main block and rear wing, with a lean-to roof of stone slates. North of the main block there is one storey range with attics, containing the kitchen and former service rooms - now partly converted to a separate unit - "Manor House Bed and Breakfast" - (in same ownership as Manor House). The front elevation of this range has a modern part-glazed door and metal windows. At the south end there is a projecting section with a gable end to the road. The rear elevation of this range has a ledged door and a pair of glazed doors. There are modern metal window and one double-hung sash on the ground floor whilst the attic has two dormers with casements with glazing bars. <4>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 80608442) Winfrith Fields Farm (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 378 (Monograph). SDO149.

‘(3) WINFRITH FIELDS FARM, also known as the Manor House, of brick with some coursed rubble and roofed with stone slates and tiles, was built in the late 16th century but was extensively remodelled in the early 19th century. Outbuildings (Plate 52), including some of 16th-century date, stand to the N. and E.
The plan of the house is L-shaped with a staircase in the S.E. wing; original stonework remains at the S.W. end of the front block, surmounted by brickwork of 17th and 19th-century date; the N.W. elevation has been entirely rebuilt in the early 19th century. The S.E. wing, which has been truncated, also has traces of stonework and 17th-century brickwork. The late 16th-century staircase has close strings with turned balusters, a moulded hand-rail and square newels with panelled sides and shaped finials; a semicircular wooden arch with lion-headed key block and pendant spans the base of the stair.
N.E. of the front block is a single-storey Kitchen Wing containing a reset 18th-century fireplace with a moulded arched stone head and stop-chamfered jambs. Further N.E. are farm Outbuildings including at the N. end an L-shaped brick building of one storey and attics with a thatched roof; the brickwork in the latter is of late 16th-century date laid to English bond, with a diaper pattern of glazed headers; this building, which is probably domestic in origin, retains two original three-light wooden-framed dormer windows on the N. side.
A Barn, 80 yds. E. of the house, of coursed rubble, partly rebuilt in brick, and with a thatched roof, is of the 16th century. It has a porch with lean-to roof on the S.W. side. The barn roof (Pt. 1, Fig. p. lxv) is supported by jointed cruck trusses with arch-braced collars, the ridge piece being carried on yokes joining the heads of the principals.’

<3> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 474 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<4> Historic England, Historic England Archive, BF104917 (Index). SDO14738.

THE MANOR HOUSE (WINFRITH FIELDS FARMHOUSE), HIGH STREET, WINFRITH NEWBURGH

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455688 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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