Listed Building record MDO15204 - The Manor House, Newland, Sherborne

This house is said to have a C15 or C16 origin. The front as existing appears to be largely early or mid C19 Gothic Revival work, but the central oriel may be partly original. Front is 2 storey, 3 window, stone, with two gables.

This house is said to have a C15 or C16 origin. The front as existing appears to be largely early or mid C19 Gothic Revival work, but the central oriel may be partly original. Front is 2 storey, 3 window, stone, with two gables. Between these is a carved parapet. 4-light stone mullioned windows with cusped heads to lights, the central 1st floor window being an oriel. 4-centred arch and carved spandrels to doorway. East side has two large splayed bays with french windows. The L-shaped wing at the back is in a simpler style. Interior has interesting early Gothic Revival woodwork.

This description is derived from the associated designation record, the validity of which has not been checked.

The Manor House. Perhaps late C15th or early C16th; to this date may belong the two front wings formerly represented by a courtyard where the hole now stands. The North wing is C17th and was joined to the main house in the C18th. Remodelled in C19th and again recently. Grade II. <1> <3>

‘Recent work at the Manor House, Newland, has removed details of the trefoiled-headed panels of the corbelling of the oriel window, as well as the partly restored angel which held a shield with arms, thought to be those of Chaldecot.’ <4>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 218 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(57) Manor House, 50 yards S.E. of (56), is perhaps of late 15th or early 16th-century origin; to this date may belong the two front wings formerly separated by a courtyard where the hall now stands. The N. wing is of the 17th century and it was joined to the main block in the 18th century. The house was remodelled in the 19th century and again recently. The S. front has two gables and between them a horizontal quatre-foiled parapet with flowers in the panels; it is partly restored and probably not in situ. The oriel window was formerly in the eastern gable as shown by a print of 1816; it has a single cinque-foiled light in each of the three faces and a similar panel below the sill; the window rests on corbelling with trefoil-headed panels and springing from a partly restored angel holding a shield with the arms probably of Chaldecot. The N. block retains a doorway with a four-centred head and now blocked. Inside the building, the main passage on the first floor has a mediæval basin and drain set in a recess with a two-centred head.’

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1964 (Map). SWX1197.

(ST 63971689). The Manor House (UDC Offices) (NAT)

<3> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 384 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<4> Keen, L J, 1981, Sherborne; Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, p.127 (Article in serial). SDO10327.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 887486 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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