Description

TOLPUDDLE
SY 7994 THE GREEN

15/182 Tolpuddle Manor
House (formerly listed as
26.1.56 Manor House)

GV II*

Manor house. Dated over entrance, IVNA 1696. Front wall of rough tooled
ashlar stone, left end wall of brick and flint banding, right end, and rear
walls of brick - the latter appears a C18 or C19 refacing. Slate roof with
stone eaves courses and coped gables. Externally projecting brick end
stacks. 2 storeys and attic. Gabled porch, with ball finial, has moulded
round-arched opening with keystone, and moulded imposts and jambs. String
course above keystone. Inner doorway with depressed 4-centred arch and
6-panel door. On the main facade, string courses at first floor level and
above first floor windows. Ground floor has 4 stone mullioned and transomed
windows - wave moulded mullions, and lead lights. 5 similar windows on
first floor. On both floors, some lights blocked to suit later partitions.
Attic has 2 hipped dormers with casements with centre horizontal bar. Rear
wing at right end of one storey and attic - contemporary or slightly later,
containing early heavy oak door. Adjoining this a single storey slated wing
of c1800. Interior much altered in C18 and later. Altered C18 closed
string stair, with alternately turned and twisted balusters and newels in
the form of composite pilasters with reversed volutes (the "Blandford"
Capital). In 2 ground floor rooms re-used moulded stone fireplace
surrounds, reputedly from Fonthill. (RCHM Monument 2. Dorset Vol III)

Listing NGR: SY7908894446

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17553868

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)