Monument record MDO1811 - Osmington Manor, Osmington

The ruins of a manor house of probable 17th century date. The building now consists of walls of squared stone rubble without a roof, with evidence of more than one phase of building work. It is thought that the site was occupied by a medieval building that was partly rebuilt to form the present building, with the eastern part created by the rebuilding of a medieval hall and solar.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 180 (Monograph). SDO148.

‘(4) OSMINGTON MANOR (15 yds. No.), of two storeys with walls of squared rubble, is ruinous and has no roof. It is of the 17th century, but an irregular break in the masonry shows that it is not all of one build.
On plan the house comprised three rooms and a through passage; a change in floor levels suggests that the E. part may be a reconstruction of, initially, a medieval hall next to the passage and a solar over a low cellar at the E. end. The S. front has three windows of three lights. The N. wall has mostly fallen but the doorway to the passage remains, set in a slight projection. Doorways have ovolo-moulded or hollow-chamfered jambs; two, one reset in a garden wall, have four-centred heads.’

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Aug 23 2024 12:26PM