Listed Building record MDO37282 - The Courtyard, Clyffe House, Tincleton

The former service wing to Clyffe House, built in 1842 to a design by the architect Benjamin Ferrey. This service wing is planned around a courtyard, and haswalls of brick with a stone slate roof. It is now converted to residential use, being divided into several dwellings.

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 287 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(2) CLYFFE HOUSE (78189215), ½ m. N. E. of the church, was built in 1842 in late 16th-century style, the architect being Benjamin Ferrey. It is of two storeys with attics and has walls of English-bond brickwork with stone dressings ; the roofs are covered with stoneslates. To the N.E. of the main block is a slightly lower service building, planned around a courtyard. The stone windows are of many lights, mostly with transoms; those of the ground floor are capped by continuous weathered string courses ; those of the first floor have labels. The windows of the N. front and of the service building have square-headed lights ; elsewhere the heads are four-centred. The chimneystacks have groups of octagonal brick shafts with moulded cappings. Inside, the entrance hall is lined with 19th-century woodwork incorporating mid 17th-century panels with guilloche enrichment.’

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Aug 26 2015 11:39AM