Listed Building: MUSTON MANOR INCLUDING ATTACHED WALL, DOVECOTE AND MOUNTING BLOCK TO SOUTH (104914)

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Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 192/12/183
Date assigned 26 January 1956
Date last amended

Description

SY 70 NW PIDDLEHINTON 12/183 26-1-56 Muston Manor including attached wall, dovecote and mounting block to south (formerly listed as Muson Manor House) GV II House, late C17. Brick (English bond) main facade wall; banded flint and rubble end walls. Tiled, gable-ended roof with brick stacks to right of door and to gables. 2 storey porch with attic; 5 bays with early C20 extension right. Ground floor has 4-light stone mullioned windows, with hollow chamfers. The upper floor has similar 3-light windows. Porch has a elliptically headed stone arch and continuously hollow chamfer and ogee moulded jambs. C19 2-light gabled dormers. Internal features: C17 chimney piece from Waterston Manor. To the south is a brick wall terminating in a small dovecote with a pitched slate roof. The wall has a gateway with brick piers having a flat stone coping with ball finials. Mounting block below dovecote. RCHM, Dorset, vol III, p 209, no 3. Listing NGR: SY7230896017

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Location

Grid reference SY 7230 9601 (point)
District (historic) West Dorset
Civil Parish Piddlehinton; Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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Dec 3 2018 10:25AM