Listed Building: MANOR FARM HOUSE (106244)

DEWLISH SY 79 NE CHURCH STREET (South Side) 5/56 Manor Farm House 26.1.56 GV II* Small manor house. Early C17, probably for Arthur Radford (Hutchins); rear wing added in C19. Walls of flint and stone banding. Slate roof, with parapets and moulded coped gables. Brick stacks. 2 storeys and attic. Double pile plan. Front elevation has twin gables of unequal pitch, capped by chimney stacks, one brick and one stone. Central flush panel door under depressed 4-centred arch. Ground and first floors each have four 3-light stone mullioned and transomed windows under hoodmoulds. One similar 2-light window in each attic gable. C19 rear wing, of flint and brick banding, with slate roof. Single storey wing on left of this in similar construction. Internally: C17 stair with heavy turned balusters. Several rooms have C17 oak panelling, some with enriched friezes and fireplace surrounds. Several C17 oak panelled doors. (RCHM Monument 3 Dorset Vol III. Hutchins, History of Dorset II 606) Listing NGR: SY7751598176

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