Listed Building record MDO26315 - Manor Farmhouse, Winterbourne Steepleton

Early seventeenth century farmhouse, with later heightening at north end. Dressed stone and banded knapped flint walls, clay-tile roofs with concrete gable-copings.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1959 (Map). SWX1197.

(SY 62718983) Manor Farm [NAT]

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 395 (Monograph). SDO149.

‘(2) Manor Farm, house (200 yds. W.), is of two storeys and has walls of alternate bands of flint and freestone; the roof is covered with modern slates but with the lower courses of local stone slates. The house was built in the late 16th or early 17th century and was originally only one storey high at the N. end; it was later heightened to two storeys throughout. The porch on the E. front is of stone without flint banding and may be an early addition. The house now stands with its back to the road, but it seems probable that the road originally ran to the S. of the house, through the present farmyard.

The two-storey porch has an outer doorway with chamfered and cambered stone head and continuous jambs; the windows are mostly original, with stone mullions and, on the ground floor, moulded labels. The back of the house has a weathered string-course along the centre part which was probably put in to protect the roof of a lean-to which has since been removed; it crosses an 18th-century staircase window, dividing the three bottom lights from a semicircular top light; a ground-floor window below the string is modern. The house originally comprised, on the ground floor, two heated rooms with an unheated room between them, and an unheated service room at the N. end. The entrance may have led directly into the N. heated room. In the S. room the fireplace has been rebuilt; the middle of the house has been rearranged to provide an office or study with a fireplace built in the 19th century, and the present staircase is of the 19th century. The fireplace in the room to the N. ahs been rebuilt but retains the original moulded four-centred stone head and continuous jambs, all reset.’

<3> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 490-1 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 452569 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 22 2024 4:07PM