Listed Building: WADDON MANOR WITH COURTYARD WALLS, STEPS AND GATE-PIERS (105319)

SY 68 NW PORTESHAM WADDON 4/199 32/11 Waddon Manor, with courtyard walls, steps and gate-piers 26.1.56 GV I Manor House. Late C17, extended c.1700 by Henry Chafin. Portesham rubble-stone (north and east ranges) and ashlar (west range) walls. Slate and stone slab (west range) roofs. Ashlar stone stacks with moulded cornices at centre north ridge, at junction of-north and south ridges, two on west ridge. North and east ranges built at right angles, west range rebuilt c.1700. 1701 fire burnt down westernmost range. U-Plan round a small courtyard, open to south. North range: 1½ storeys, 3 bays, 2-light mullion-and-transom windows with moulded architraves, wooden casements and glazing-bars. 2-light dormers with hipped slate roofs. Doorway at centre with square stone architrave and 6-panel door, C20. South-east range: I½ storeys, 4 bays, windows of the above type; bay 2 - door with 4 fielded-panels; bay 4 - 2-leaf plank- door with strap-hinges, round head. One attic window, window has a 2-light cast-iron casement with hipped slate roof. Range used originally as bakehouse and brewhouse. West range: garden elevation: 2 storeys with cellars and attics. Moulded plinth and moulded plat-band. Irregular fenestration, from north to south, one cross-transomed window of above type, walling blocking the formerly projecting western range. 4 bays of sashes having moulded stone cills, stone architraves with small projecting keys. Sashes have thick glazing-bars and crown glass. Interior: west wing, former kitchen: stone fireplace with wide elliptical head of dressed stone voussoirs and ashlar jambs, with single straight chamfer. Staircase of c.1710 with a cut string, turned newels, turned and octagonal balusters, ramped handrail with voluted termination. Doorways have moulded, shouldered architraves with pediments over. 6-panel doors. 'White' Parlour is lined with bolection-moulded panelling, and has fielded-panel window- shutters. The Morning Room and three of the bedrooms have ovolo-moulded and fielded- panelling. Attached front courtyard walls and gate-piers, dressed stone walls, coped. Ashlar stone gate-piers with roll-moulded edges and projecting cornices. Projecting rebates with scroll terminals. Attached ten stone steps up to gate-piers. (RCHM Dorset I, p.243 (8)). Listing NGR: SY6201385790

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