Listed Building record MDO16070 - Abbey House, Horton

A building consisting of an 18th-century brick frontage concealing a timber-framed building built around 1500. This older building may have been part of a monastic cell associated with Sherborne Abbey that it known to have been at Horton. The manor was bought by Sir Anthony Sturt from the Uvedale family at the end of the 17th century, and this house is thought to have been the manor house. It served as the vicarage from 1920 to 1961.

Abbey House (formerly listed as `The Vicarage'). <1> (6) ABBEY HOUSE (03030739), the Vicarage from 1920 to 1961, is of two storeys and has brick walls and tiled roofs. The history of the house is uncertain. It is said that it was formerly a range of stables associated with the manor house, but if this is true the house has disappeared without trace; it is perhaps more likely that it was itself the manor house which Sir Anthony Sturt bought from the Uvedales. Edward Gibbon was there in 1762 (Journals, ed. Low, 78) and noted the lake (16) and the tower (7); he says nothing of the house. The symmetrical 18th-century E. front masks a timber-frame structure of c. 1500, probably associated with the monastic cell (SU 00 NW 9). <2>

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Apr 4 2023 2:33PM