Listed Building record MDO28458 - Higher Manston Farmhouse, Manston

A house built in the late 18th century, with later extensions. The building has walls of brick and tiled roofs. Striking features of the interior are reported to include a staircase and fireplace surround.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey map 1:10,560, 1962 (Map). SDO18658.

(ST 80931546) Higher Manston Farm (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 144 (Monograph). SDO136.

'(6) HIGHER MANSTON FARM (80931546), ½ m. N.W. of the church, is two-storied with attics and has brick walls and tiled roofs. It is of the late 18th century with later extensions to the E. The symmetrical three-bay W. front is rendered and has, on the gorund floor, a central doorway flanked by three-light sashed windows. Similar windows occur on the first floor and a single window opens above the doorway. The attic has two small dormer windows. Inside, the close-string staircase has Tuscan-column newel posts and turned balusters. A ground-floor room has a late 18th-century fireplace surround with carton-pierre enrichment.'

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 206054 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Oct 15 2022 10:56AM