Listed Building: DELCOMBE MANOR (103496)

MILTON ABBAS DELCOMBE Delcombe Manor ST 70 SE 2/80 (9/5b) 14-7-55 GV II* Country house. Built c1750 re-using medieval material from Milton Abbey. Walls mainly of flint and stone banding, part plastered. Roofs part tiled, part slated, with coped gables and ornamental finials. In Romantic Gothic style. Mostly 2-storeyed. Later wings at rear, of brick and slate. From left end - a building known as "The Chapel" at right angles to main range. Walls of flint and stone banding, tiled roof with coped gable and finial. At low level, a 2-light square-headed stone mullioned window with arched lights. Simple rectangular window over. Remains of 4-centred arched stone fireplace in this building. Right of this, a single-storey link block of stone, flint and brick, open at front, forming verandah. Right of this the main house, with plastered walls and hipped slate roof, plastered end stacks and one ashlar stack in centre with moulded cap. 2 storeys. 3 gables on front, the centre one with slight projection, and diagonal buttresses; outer gables rise flush from eaves, with timber bargeboards. The hipped roof a later insertion - original profile as on Garden Cottage (q.v.). Central gabled porch with stone coping and finial, and diagonal buttresses. Segmental-pointed doorway with part-glazed door. Flanking this, on ground floor, in centre gable, 3-light mullioned and transomed windows with lead lights. On first floor,,two 4-light and one 3-light mullioned windows with lead lights. Each side of the centre gable, ground floor has one 3-light mullioned and transomed window with lead lights; first floor has one 3-light mullioned window with lead lights. Right of main house, a single-storey and attic block of flint and stone banding with hipped slate roof. One brick stack. Ledged door. One casement with glazing bars and a small loop light. Attic has one flat-roofed dormer with lead lights. right of this a screen wall linking the house to Garden Cottage (q.v.). This of flint and brick banding with battlements. 4-centred arched opening with quatrefoil panels in spandrels. Carved stone over with Abbot William's rebus (A. W. with a "mill" on a "turn") dated 1515. RCHM Monument 11. (Dorset. Vol.III) Listing NGR: ST7929004846

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