Description

DORCHESTER OVERY LANE SU59SE (North side) Overy 3/112 Manor House and attached 18/07/63 garden wall to rear (Formerly listed as Overy Manor House)

GV II

Manor house. 1712 on datestone; extended early C19. Red brick with flared headers and some coursed clunch rubble; old plain-tile roof with brick stacks. Double-depth lobby-entry plan. 2 storeys plus attics. 5-window front range, with stepped brick plinth, storey band and moulded wood cornice, has, to right of centre, a 6-panel door, with architrave frame below canopy ornamented with key decoration and supported on console brackets; to right is a large canted bay window, and to left are two 3-light casements under segmental arches. At first floor are 3 corresponding 3-light casements plus 2 single-light windows. To right of that over the door is a recessed lozenge painted with "D/WH/1712". The 3 gabled roof dormers have C19 ornamental bargeboards and there are stacks in line with the entrance and to the left gable. Part of the left gable wall and the parallel rear range are rubble with brick dressings and have further casements. All windows have leaded lights. The right end of the rear range forms a higher hip-roofed extension of c.1830. The wall facing right is in header bond, with red quoins and dentil eaves course, and contains a wide 2-storey canted bay window with 16-pane sashes and a dentil cornice. Interior not frae inspected. A clunch rubble wall, partly with a stepped brick coping, runs from the right end of the house around the rear of a walled garden, which is also partly enclosed by the The Old Barn (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SU5825794015

External Links

• Wikidata Q26299914

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)