Listed Building record MDO10992 - Loders Court, Loders

Late 18th century Manor House with possible Priory Building remains in the cellars. It has stuccoed stone walls and a flat parapet. Inside there is a late 18th century marble fireplace- surround and a marble floor in the staircase hall.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 139-140 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(3) Loders Court, house, 20 yards N.E. of the parish church is of two storeys with cellars and attics. The walls are of stone faced with stucco and the roofs are slate-covered. Some rubble walling in the cellars may be the fragmentary remains of Loders Priory. The house was almost entirely rebuilt at the end of the 18th century and has modern additions on the E. The N. front of the 18th-century house is symmetrically designed ; there is a porch in the centre, a plain flat string at first-floor level, a simple cornice and a parapet wall alternating with short lengths of balustrading. The porch has four Roman Doric columns, the two in the centre coupled, and an entablature with triglyphs and mutules centred over each column. The window openings are plain. The W. front has features similar to those of the N. front and a mid 19th-century treillage supporting a flared roof the full width of the ground floor. The arrangement of the S. front is largely hap-hazard and the E. is concealed by later additions. Inside, in the cellars is a short length of stone walling with rough square plinths. On the ground floor, the S.E. room contains a late 18th-century marble fireplace-surround with entablature and frieze-panel carved with an urn and rams’ heads. The staircase-hall is semi-circular at the S. end and contains its original stair with wrought-iron balusters. The house retains a number of early 19th-century fittings. '

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