Listed Building record MDO9360 - Clyffe House, Tincleton

A country house built in 1842 to a design by the architect Benjamin Ferrey; in recent use as a school, and now converted to multiple residential use. The building has walls of brick with stone dressings, and a stone slate roof.

(SY 78189215) Clyffe House, was built in 1842 in the "late 16th century" style. This two storeyed house with attics has walls of brickwork with stone dressings. To the north-east of the main block is a slightly lower service building, planned around a courtyard. (2)

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 78189215) Clyffe House (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 287 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(2) CLYFFE HOUSE (78189215), ½ m. N. E. of the church, was built in 1842 in late 16th-century style, the architect being Benjamin Ferrey. It is of two storeys with attics and has walls of English-bond brickwork with stone dressings; the roofs are covered with stoneslates. To the N.E. of the main block is a slightly lower service building, planned around a courtyard. The stone windows are of many lights, mostly with transoms; those of the ground floor are capped by continuous weathered string courses; those of the first floor have labels. The windows of the N. front and of the service building have square-headed lights; elsewhere the heads are four-centred. The chimneystacks have groups of octagonal brick shafts with moulded cappings. Inside, the entrance hall is lined with 19th-century woodwork incorporating mid 17th-century panels with guilloche enrichment.’

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 454906 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Feb 25 2023 7:42AM