Listed Building record MDO17023 - Dunshay Manor House, Worth Matravers

30/17 II Downshay Farmhouse. House in rubble, ashlar and stone slate. L-shaped plan. 2s Stone mullioned windows. East elevation has 2 projecting wings between which is 2s. porch, with semi-circular-headed arch to entrance. Internally there are panelling and other contemporary features. C.17. <1>

Dunshay Manor of roughly square plan with two gables flanking a central porch is of two storeys and dates from the 17th century although partly rebuilt in 1906. The house is presumed to stand on the site of a medieval manor house which Leland stated belonged to Alice Breuer (circa 1220), who gave marble from her quarries (see SY 97 NE 3) for the building of Salisbury Cathedral. <3>

Additional Bibliography. <4>

Dunshay Manor is as described by authorities<1> and <2> but in <1> it is wrongly named Downshay Farmhouse which is a modern building 100m to the SE. <6>

<1> DOE (HRR), 1952, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Wareham and Purbeck Rural District 1952 (Scheduling record). SWX2549.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 98077963) Dunshay Manor and remains of (NAT) Manor House (NR)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 413 (Monograph). SDO149.

<4> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 500 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<5> DOE (HRR), 1984, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: District of Purbeck amendment 1984 (Scheduling record). SWX2904.

<6> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 25-APR-86 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<7> Historic England, Historic England Archive, OS52/F59/2 (Index). SDO14738.

SOUTHERN WALL OF DUNSHAGN MANOR HOUSE.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456368 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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