Listed Building record MDO13906 - Manor Farm House, formerly Willis's Shroton Farmhouse, Iwerne Courtney or Shroton

Manor Farm House of two and three storeys with a cellar. The walls are of brick and rubble and the roof is slate. The west part of the house is of the first half of the eighteenth century and the three storey east range was added circa 1800. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

(ST 85701294) Willis's Shroton Farm (NAT). <1>

Willis's Shroton Farm (85701294), is of two and three storeys with a cellar, and has walls of brick and rubble, and slated roofs. The W. part of the farm-house is of the first half of the 18th century and the three-storied E. range was added c. 1800. The original W. range is two-storied with an attic; on the ground floor it has a large kitchen to the N.W. and an office, perhaps originally a parlour, to the N.E. To the S. of these rooms are a scullery, a store-room and a stair-case. The E. range consists of a N. and a S. room with a narrow passage between them. The E. front is brick but the N. and S. side-walls are rendered, the rendering returning on the E. front in the guise of rusticated quoins. The E. front is symmetrical and of three bays, with a round-headed doorway on the ground floor, square-headed sashed windows on each side, and three similar windows in each of the two upper storeys. <2>

(ST 85701294) Manor Farm (NAT). <3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey map 1:10,560, 1962 (Map). SDO18658.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 129 No 5 (Monograph). SDO146.

'(5) Willis’s Shroton Farm (85710294), 60 yds. S.W. of the foregoing, is of two and three storeys with a cellar, and has walls of brick and rubble, and slated roofs. The W. part of the farmhouse is of the first half of the 18th century and the three-storied E. range was added c. 1800. The original W. range is two-storied with an attic; on the ground floor it has a large kitchen to the N.W. and an office, perhaps originally a parlour, to the N.E. To the S. of these rooms are a scullery, a store-room and a staircase. The E. range consists of a N. and a S. room with anarrow passage between them. The E. front is of brick but the N. and S. side-walls are rendered, the rendering returning on the E. front in the guise of rusticated quoins. The E. front is symmetrical and of three bays, with a round-headed doorway on the ground floor, square-headed sashed windows on each side, and three similar windows in each of the two upper storeys.'

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1984 (Map). SDO17396.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 206183 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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