Listed Building record MDO17566 - The Manor House, Steeple

The Manor House at Steeple, of two storeys with attics, has walls of coursed rubble and stone slated roofs.

It was built circa 1600 to a simple rectangular plan, and enlarged in the 17th century by the addition of a south-east wing and a projection in the angle so formed. A tablet on the north-west front, bearing the date 1698, probably marks the remodelling of the building by the Clavells. Soon afterwards the same family added a north wing. Further extensions to the north-east are modern. <2>

Steeple Manor, as described and well preserved. Pubished 1:2500 survey correct. <3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 91178104) Steeple Manor (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 271-2 (Monograph). SDO146.

<3> Fletcher, Martin, Field investigator's comments MJF, F1 MJF 23-APR-86 (Unpublished document). SDO17630.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457082 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 23 2023 12:25PM