Listed Building record MDO28528 - The Old Rectory, Mapperton, Sturminster Marshall

A house, formerly the rectory, built in the middle of the 18th century. The building has walls of brick and a tiled roof with stone slates at the edges. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

SY 905986. Old Rectory, Mapperton of two storeys and attic with brick walls and tiled roofs was built in the mid 18th century on an L-shaped plan. The symmetrical front has a central doorway with porch added in the early 19th century. <2>

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

(SY 90529865) Old Rectory (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, 290 (Monograph). SDO149.

‘The following monuments unless otherwise described are in Mapperton and are of one storey with attics, with cob walls and thatched roofs.
(37) OLD RECTORY 9905986), of two storeys and attic with brick walls and tiled roof with stone slates at verges, was built in the mid 18th century on an L-shaped plan. The front is symmetrical; the central doorway has an added porch with early 19th-century reeded columns; the windows have double-hung sashes under flat arches with keystones.’

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457360 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 8 2023 2:57PM