Listed Building record MDO14774 - Manor House, High Street, Yetminster

The Manor House was built early in the C16th to which period belongs the middle part of the house. The rest was rebuilt in the C17th, while the block at the West end is C19th.

(ST 59411085) Manor House [NAT]. (1)

The Manor House was built early in the C16th to which period belongs the middle part of the house. The rest was rebuilt in the C17th, while the block at the West end is C19th.

Grade II*. (2-4)

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

‘The following monuments, unless otherwise described, are of the 17th century and of two storeys; the walls are of rubble and the roofs are thatched or covered with modern materials. Some of the buildings have exposed ceiling-beams and original fireplaces. … (17) Manor House, 225 yards N. of the church, was built early in the 16th century to which period belongs the middle part of the house; the rest of the house was rebuilt in the 17th century. The front has two 17th-century five-light windows on the ground floor and some two and four-light windows on the first floor all with labels. Inside the building the middle room has original moulded ceiling-beams forming sixteen panels; this room has also a muntin and plank partition. On the walls of the entrance-passage are three late 18th-century panels carved in relief with cherubs and angels supporting roundels containing respectively the profile busts of St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Dominic and the Supper at Emmaus, probably fragments of communion rails.’

<2> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 505 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1974 (Map). SWX1197.

(ST 59411085) Manor House [NAT]

<4> Department of the Environment, 1986, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Dorset (Parishes of Beer Hacket, Chetnole, Leigh, Leweston, Lillington, Longburton, Ryme Intrinseca and Yetminster), 63 (Scheduling record). SDO16449.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 883065 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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