Listed Building record MDO3562 - The Manor House, Lower Blandford St Mary

THE MANOR HOUSE (89090553), is of two storeys with attics and cellars. The walls are of English-bonded brickwork, with quoins and dressings of ashlar; the roofs are tiled. Apart from service rooms to N.W. and N.E., which are largely of the 19th century, the house comprises work of three main periods. The S.W. range, containing the Drawing Room, staircase and N.W. room, is probably of the first half of the 17th century. At this period there was undoubtedly a wing to the N.E., but its extent is unknown since it was replaced, probably c. 1700, by the present N.E. range, containing the Dining Room. Lastly, the interior was extensively refitted and the staircase was remodelled about the middle of the 18th century.

The house is a pleasing specimen of domestic architecture of the 17th and 18th centuries; the mid 18th-century staircase is perhaps the most notable feature. <2,3>

The Manor House. Grade 2*. ,4,5>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey map 1:10,560, 1969 (Map). SDO18658.

(ST 89090553) Manor House

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 41-42 (Monograph). SDO146.

<3> DOE (HHR), 1954, List of Buildings of Special Historic or Architectural Interest: Blandford Rural District (Scheduling record). SDO17701.

<4> DOE (HHR), 1985, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: North Dorset District, 6 (Scheduling record). SDO17732.

<5> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 102 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205481 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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