Listed Building record MDO26925 - Remains of Manor House, Osmington

(SY 724830) Osmington Manor, situated 15 yards north of St. Osmund's Church, is a roofless and ruinous two-storeyed building of squared stone rubble. The structure 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 east part may be a reconstruction of, initially, a Medieval hall next to the passage and a solar over a low cellar at the east end. The south front has three windows of three lights with labels and another window of two lights. The north 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. <2>

The Manor House remains as described by RCHM (2) - roofless and ruinous and partly overgrown. <3>

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

(SY 72428300) Manor House (NR) (remains of) (NAT)

<2> 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. N.), 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 mediaeval 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 with labels and another window of two 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.'

<3> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 10-JUL-1980 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454284 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 22 2023 2:17PM