Listed Building record MDO4763 - Manor house, Stoke Wake

A two-storey manor house built in the early 18th century, with a south wing was added in the 19th century. The building has walls of rubble and brick with ashlar dressings, and rendered in places, and a tiled roof.

The Manor House, Stoke Wake is two-storeyed of rubble and brick with ashlar dressings and other walls rendered. The east range was built early in the 18th century and the south wing of the 19th century. Rubble stuccoed and tiled two sides and attics. Some stone mullioned windows. Dormered attic windows. Probably in part early 17th century. Much altered of this building has been altered. <2>

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

ST 76450640 Manor Farm

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 258-259 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(2) THE MANOR HOUSE (76450641), 40 yds. S. of the church, is two-storied and has walls of rubble and brick with ashlar dressings, other walls rendered, and tiled roofs with stone slate verges. The E. range was built early in the 18th century and the S. wing is of the 19th century.

The 18th-century N. front is of five bays with a moulded plinth, an ashlar plat-band above the ground-floor windows, and ashlar quoins; the E. bay is wider than the others. The lower storey is of rubble and the upper storey is of brickwork in English bond. The doorway, in the centre bay of the lower storey, is of ashlar with a moulded and eared architrave, a key-stone and an enriched entablature with a broken segmental pediment; the plinth moulding is mitred downwards on each sited of the doorway. The ground-floor windows are of stone, and of four square-headed lights, except the one immediately E. of the doorway, which has five lights; the mullions are hollow-chamfered within chamfered surrounds. The first-floor windows correspond with those below but are of timber; the window above the doorway is of three lights. The gabled E. wall is of coursed rubble, with a projecting chimney–breast, weathered at the top in brickwork. The s. front is partly masked by the later S. wing but the exposed part has a plat-band as on the N. front, and is of rubble in the lower storey and of brick above.’

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 201780 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Jan 13 2022 10:36AM