Listed Building: PUNCKNOWLE MANOR HOUSE (400688)

SY 58 NW PUNCKNOWLE CHURCH STREET, South Side 6/214 Puncknowle 7-8-52 Manor House GV II* Manor House, c.1600, with C19 rear range. Rubble-stone walls with dressed stone quoins. Hipped stone slab roof with diminishing slabs. Stacks: at north end wall eaves, with a tapering base and rendered over. Brick stack on south-west wall. Substantial porch at centre of east elevation, with a hipped roof over. Plan: original east block (single depth) with rebuilt and added rear ranges. 2 storeys, with attics. 3 windows, 3~lights each with elliptical heads and ovolo stone mullions carried up into the arches. Separate labels over. Windows have fixed lead lights with C19 metal casements. C19 intersecting-leading at top centre and top left. Porch has a round-headed entrance arch with moulded jambs anal returned label over. Recessed panel with illegible inscription at centre. 3-light window over. 2 single-light windows of the above type, light the landing staircases. Porch additionally has a stone barrel-vault and stone seats. Inner door has straight-chamfered jambs, and a 2-leaf C20 door with bolections. C19 rear range. 2 storeys and dormers, 4 windows, 2- and 3-light wooden casements with glazing- bars. Stone cills. C20 French windows inserted to bays 1 and 3. 4 dormers over have sliding-sashes and glazing-bars. C20 range to north, off this (present entrance). Quasi-castellated parapet, with a flat roof behind. Saute casement design. Interior: C17 ground floor, now entirely open, original divisions uncertain. 5 major ceiling beams, slightly-chamfered, carried on moulded wooden brackets with stylized-foliage. Upper rooms, South room has complete bolection-moulded panelling with dado rail and panels, painted in brown grissaille very rapidly, landscape scenes and shipwreck; north wall with Moses in the Bull-rushes. North room with green ground and pink panels, cherubs in gold, and corner foliage. Date of present colouring not known. RCHM Dorset I, p 190 (2). Listing NGR: SY5347388629

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