Listed Building record MDO27597 - The Old Rectory, New Street, Marnhull

House, probably of 1695, but much altered in the late eighteenth or nineteenth centuries. Ashlar walls and slated, gable-ended roofs with rendered stacks at various locations. Now called Conyers place, the listed building point is in the wrong location.

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 152 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(3) THE OLD RECTORY (78151869), 30 yds. S. of the parish church, is two-storied with attics and cellars, and has ashlar-faced walls and slated roofs. The house was enlarged and much altered in the second half of the 18th century and again in the 19th century but it probably is of late 17th-century origin; the date 1695 with initials T.C.M. is inscribed on a stone roundel built into the E. elevation. Originally the house had an H-plan but the N. recess was filled in in the 19th century. A few windows have original moulded stone surrounds but the other openings are of the 19th century. Inside, two ground-floor rooms have early 19th-century fielded panelling and another room has a bolection-moulded fireplace surround.
The Stables, 40 yds. W. of the house, have rubble walls and tiled roofs and date from the late 18th or early 19th century. Adjacent, raised on staddle stones, is a Granary of about the same date, with a pyramidal tiled roof with stone-slate verges, and walls of weather-boarded timber framework.’

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 888387 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Aug 23 2024 11:55AM