Listed Building record MDO4241 - Manston House, Manston

A house of 17th-century origin but rebuilt in 1857. The building is of two storeys with attics and is built of ashlar with gabled slate roofs behind a parapet. In the late 19th century Manston House was owned by Captain Thoman Hanham an early pioneer of cremation.

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

(ST 81601500) Manston House (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.

'(3) Manston House (81601500), 50 yds. S.W. of the church, is of two storeys with attics. Much of the house was destroyed by fire in 1857 and rebuilt, but part of the earlier building survives; it is of the 17th century and has ashlar walls and stoneslated roofs. The 19th-century block, containing the principal rooms, is at the N. end; it has a three-bay ashlar N. front with a pediment over the middle bay and a pedimented doorway at the centre; the roofs are slated. The 17th-century range is seen at the rear of the 19th-century block, facing E. and W., its southern end being concealed by further 19th-century additions. The 17th-century E. front is two-storied and comprises a central gabled bay, about half of another gabled bay adjacent on the N., and a third bay somewhat set back on the S. The lower storey is hidden by a modern addition but the first floor of the centre bay has a mullioned and transomed window of three square-headed lights; over it is a hollow-chamfered and weathered string-course. In the gable above the string-course is a square-headed two-light window with the remains of a hood-mould. The W. elevation of the 17th-century range has, on the ground floor, a square-headed four-light window with a weathered hood-mould; a similar window on the first floor has no hood-mould. Inside, the 17th-century part of the house contains the kitchen, with a large fireplace with a chamfered segmental head. Outbuildings to the S. are of brick with tiled roofs and date from the late 18th or early 19th century. A private Crematorium dates from the late 19th century and a Mausoleum, 50 yds. N. of the church, was built in 1857.'

<3> Brennan, N, and Orczewski, P, 2014, Manston House, Manston, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, Archaeological Watching Brief Report (Unpublished document). SDO13976.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 206300 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 15 2022 8:22AM