Description

SY 59 NW MAPPERTON MAPPERTON
4-12-1951
8/99 Mapperton Rectory

II*

Former Rectory. 1699-1703 (Building Accounts). Dressed stone walls.
Plain tile roof with stone gable-copings. Stone stacks at left and
right hand gables, with ogee cornices. 2 storeys with attics. 7
windows, mainly 2-light ovolo stone mullions, though single-light
windows in beside porch. Separate labels over all the windows. C20
metal casements with glazing-bars. Gabled two-storey porch at centre.
Front doorway with straight-chamfered jambs and very depressed arch
head, Separate label over. Inscribed on lintel: "restored 1890.
Paulet Compton." Plank door with 2 main panels, studded. C18/19.
South gable-wall has 2 big stepped buttresses. Interior: "I.P, 1701"
on door lintel of north gable wall, (now internal). Internal
arrangements much altered, C19 and C20.

The muse was built by John Powell, rector of South Mapperton from
1698. The Building Accounts survive: D.C.R.O. P81/IN2. Published
by the Dorset Record Society, 1983 (ed. R. Machin).
Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 156(3).

Listing NGR: SY5028999756

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17543533

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