Description

WYNFORD EAGLE
SY 59 NE -

2/170 Manor Farmhouse
26-1-56
GV II*

Manor House. Dated 1630 on porch gable. Ham stone ashlar walls (front
elevation), with grey rubble stone plinth. Front elevation divided by string
courses at first and second floor level. Grey coursed rubble-stone side and
rear walls, formerly rendered. Ham stone quoins. Plain clay tile roofs with
stone gable-copings and scrolled kneelers. Gables of front elevation extend
lower and wider on their outer pitch. Two main parallel ridges, east-west,
and cross-ridge. Two sets of brick stacks, grouped in 4's, set diagonally,
on main ridges at halfway point. Plan: symmetrical and double-depth with
central hall-passage through to rear staircase position. Service-block, C17,
mainly detached range immediately to east. Front (west)elevation: 2½ storeys.
5 windows, 3-light ovolo-moulded stone mullions, with chamfered stone cills,
ground floor ones are cross-transomed. Cast-iron casements with glazing-bars.
Attic windows are same, though 2-light with separate labels over. Porch,
2½ storeys, gabled, with 2-light mullions also. Entrance, with cyma and
ovolo stone jambs, moulded imposts and round-headed moulded arch with massive
projecting dropped keystone. Square-headed doorway inside, door with 6 recess
panels, C20. Benches within porch. South elevation has a fossilized depressed-
arch head (re-used), and smaller blocking at right hand. Joining passage to
service-block, single-storey passage, dressed stone walls, doorway with stone
lintel over, plank door, C19. Service-block (Ham house), dressed stone walls,
clay tile roof, stone slab eaves, stone gable-copings, stone stacks with
chamfered cornices at each gable, C17. 2 storeys. 2 windows, 3-light (left)
and 2-light ovolo-moulded mullions. Mainly fixed cast-iron windows. North
pitch of roof, longer and comprising an original outshut. Entrances: from
house via passage, north outshut, east gable and at first floor level (internally)
on to lane, plank with strap-hinges.

Interior:- main house, flagstone hall. C17 open fireplaces in north rear room,
ovolo-moulded stone shelf, and position in south rear room. Upstairs fireplaces,
rear, set diagonally in outer corners, depressed-arch heads and moulded jambs,
C17. North, rear has C17 wood overmantel, 3 Ionic columns on shelf, with modillion
architrave, fretwork frieze with 3 scrolls supporting a modillion cornice, 2
recessed wood panels with own framing of enriched round arches supported on
columns having each an oil-sketch fantasy of moated houses with bridges. Service-
Block has bakehouse open fireplace with bread oven. Ceiling-beams and roof
construction intact. The House is a good example of compact Manor planning
of 1630.
(RCHM Dorset I, p.269(3). Plates: 206, 47.)

Listing NGR: SY5838396017

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17543376

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