Description

CORSCOMBE BENVILLE LANE
ST 50 SW
12.6.53
5/192 Benville Manor
- II*

Manor House. Early C17 H-Plan house, with C18 and C19 alterations.
South elevation: Rubble-stone walls, plain tile roof with stone gable-
copings at ends, right hand end with ball-finial. One stone stack at
left hand gable, 2 storeys and attics. 5 windows, canted stone bays, two
to each side of front door. 4-light stone mullions with one canted.
Hollow chamfers. Labels over ground floor windows. C20 metal casements
with fixed lead lights. Centre-bay, altered in C19 with a built-up gable,
coping and triple concrete stack. 3-light hollow-chamfered stone mullion
to first floor. Label over. Front door at centre, wooden with muntins,
C20. Tuscan Order stone porch with flat entablature, C19. West elevation:
brick on a stone plinth. Flemish bond with burnt headers. 2 storeys.
c4 windows. 3-light square stone mullions with continuous architrave, C18.
Stone window insertions, C20. Back door with stone Tudor-arch head and
continuous label over. Interior: South-east room with 5 panels of early
C16 glass, (a) Churchill(?) quartering argent a cheveron between 3 roundels
sable, and 2 damaged coats. (b) Canant. (c) Penny of Toller Whelme.
(d) Arundell. (e) has lost its surface paint. Also fragments of late
medieval church glass. South-west room: stone fireplace with straight-
chamfered jambs and tongued stops, with a Tudor-arch head. Massive stone
lintel. Part of moulded ceiling-beam, early C16, possibly re-used.
Chasuble, red silk with fleur-de-lys, cl45O English, decorated with figures
of saints and secular figures, flowers and seraphim.
Attached walls and gate-piers, to south elevation, c C18. Rubble-stone
walls with coping-stones, ramped to corners with large ball-finials. East
elevation has 2 stone gate-piers with ball-finials on hollow-chamfered spurs.
Source: RCHM Dorset I, p 106 (3).

Listing NGR: ST5342803708

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17542841

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)