Description

SY 49 SW CHIDEOCK NORTH CHIDEOCK

6/87 Chideock Manor with
7.8.52 attached wall and
outbuildings on north
side.

G.V. II

Manor House in own grounds. c.1810. Architect unknown. Lias stone, ashlar
walls with fine jointing. Coursed rubble-stone plinth. 2 stone plat-bands.
Slate roofs. Rendered brick stacks at left and right hand parapets. Shape
of roof not visible. 2 storeys. 4 bays: sash-windows with thin glazing
bars and crown glass. Tripartite sashes to the segmental bay 3. Stone cills.
Bay 2 has a square porch to ground and first floors. Front doorway with plain
pilasters. Tuscan capitals, moulded semi-circular head and projecting key.
2 leaf front door with fielded panels. Large semi-circular fanlight with
glazing bars. Recessed panel over. Parapet with flat stone coping rebuilt in
concrete. South elevation with big segmental window bay. North elevation with
the side entrance, round-headed with imposts and projecting key. Interior:
plaster cornices with running scroll and rosettes on the soffit. Dining room
with inserted stone fireplace, C16. Square lintel with 4 panels bearing 2
blank shields, Tudor rose, patera. Old kitchen. Stone fireplace inserted,
C16. Tudor arch under a straight head. Foliage spandrels, left spandrel with
/Xh M(SIC). Lintel has unusual framed with with rose at centre.
Hall staircase with plain mahogany hand-rail. Domed oval light over.

Attached brick wall in Flemish bond, c 1810, with two re-used C17 stone mullion
windows inserted. C16 stone fireplace lintel (Tudor arch) re-used as a door-
head. Beaters' Room attached on north end, early C19, brick walls with slate
roof over. Polygonal. 2 light windows with elliptical heads and a doorway.
"RCHM, Dorset I", p 95 (3).

Listing NGR: SY4204593479

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26510464

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Recommended Books

• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  For the Record
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
• 
  Old House Care and Repair