Listed Building record MDO47065 - Wynford Eagle Manor

The house is known as WYNFORD EAGLE MANOR. The house is as described in T2 and the exterior is in a good state of preservation. <3>

Manor Farmhouse. <4>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

[SY 58389601] MANOR FARM [T.I]

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 269-70 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(3) Manor Farm, house 150 yards E.N.E. of the church, is of two storeys with attics; the walls are of local rubble with ashlar and dressings of freestone; the roofs are tiled. The house belonged to the family of Sydenham in the 16th and 17th centuries and was rebuilt about 1630. The interior has been entirely modernised and a small 17th-century building to the E. has been joined to the main house. The W. Front (Plate 206) is ashlar-faced and has a three-storeyed central porch flanked by gabled bays. The porch has an outer archway with moulded jambs, semi-circular head, imposts and key-block; the inner doorway has moulded jambs and square head; the upper storeys of the porch have each a two-light window and on the gable is a carved eagle and a stone with the date 1630. The side-bays of the front have three-light transomed windows to the ground floor, three-light windows to the first floor and two-light windows in the gables. The N. side of the house is mostly faced with alternate bands of stone and flint and on this and the other sides are several original windows. The building or cottage to the E. has also some original windows. Inside the house there are two original fireplaces with moulded jambs and four-centred heads; the one on the first floor has an overmantel (Plate 47) of two bays divided and flanked by Ionic columns; the bays have each an enriched arched panel painted with a landscape; this room is lined with original panelling and has an enriched frieze. A garden-wall running W. from the N.W. angle of the house is of alternate courses of flint and stone and has a doorway with a four-centred head.'

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 17-JAN-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3.1> Chick, W, Oral: Mr Chick (farmer and occupier), Wynford Eagle Manor, Wynford Eagle (Verbal communication). SDO20049.

<4> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 503 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450744 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 24 2023 4:15PM