Listed Building: MAPPERTON RECTORY (400749)

SY 59 NW MAPPERTON MAPPERTON 4-12-1951 8/99 Mapperton Rectory II* Former Rectory. 1699-1703 (Building Accounts). Dressed stone walls. Plain tile roof with stone gable-copings. Stone stacks at left and right hand gables, with ogee cornices. 2 storeys with attics. 7 windows, mainly 2-light ovolo stone mullions, though single-light windows in beside porch. Separate labels over all the windows. C20 metal casements with glazing-bars. Gabled two-storey porch at centre. Front doorway with straight-chamfered jambs and very depressed arch head, Separate label over. Inscribed on lintel: "restored 1890. Paulet Compton." Plank door with 2 main panels, studded. C18/19. South gable-wall has 2 big stepped buttresses. Interior: "I.P, 1701" on door lintel of north gable wall, (now internal). Internal arrangements much altered, C19 and C20. The muse was built by John Powell, rector of South Mapperton from 1698. The Building Accounts survive: D.C.R.O. P81/IN2. Published by the Dorset Record Society, 1983 (ed. R. Machin). Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 156(3). Listing NGR: SY5028999756

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