Listed Building record MDO6602 - Manor Farmhouse, Wyke Regis

A detached house, formerly a farmhouse, built in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, with alterations early nineteenth century. The walls of the building are of Portland stone block with ashlar dressings, and it has a slate roof. This is the most substantial remaining secular building dating from before the eighteenth century in this early village settlement.

Detached house, formerly farmhouse. Late 16th and early 17th century, with alterations early 19th century. Large square Portland stone block with ashlar dressings, slate roof. PLAN: a two-part building with the earlier, lower unit to the left, in single-room depth with gable entry in the fireplace wall, and small rear room; the mid-17th century range, to the right, on a slightly larger scale, with double-room depth, gable fireplace, and entry to cross passage to the left. The rear room is separately roofed, with a valley gutter. EXTERIOR: the early range is one storey with attic, 1 window; a flat-roofed 12-pane sash dormer above a 4-light stone recessed hollow-mould mullion casement, with drip-course, which continues to the right, and returns to the later building. In the left gable is an entrance doorway (under reconstruction at the time of survey), and a small stack. The range to the right is in two storeys, 2 windows, with a small 6-pane casement in chamfered surround, first floor left, and a full-height canted 19th century bay with 8:12:8-pane sash and cornice at each level, and rendered skirts. The 6-panel flush door has a simple pilaster doorcase. The drip-mould, continued from the earlier range, has been cut out above the door, and at the later bay window, but otherwise continues full width, returning to the large gable stack to the right. A stone eaves mould is stopped to a short return to the left, and to the stack, right, and the gables have saddle-back copings on bold shaped kneelers. The right gable, built in to the slope, has a very large stone stack, stepped out on large dressed stone corbels each side above 2-light stone hollow-chamfer mullioned casements, extended to the right as a parapet, with small slits to a valley gutter outlet. The rear wall, in two storeys, has three replacement sashes at each level, and central doorway. INTERIOR: the central entrance, formerly a through-way, has stone flooring, and a 19th century straight-flight stair with stick balustrade returning to the front, with landing in parallel. The main parlour, to right, which now extends through to the rear range, has a large stone fireplace with four-centred moulded arch, the central stone badly dropped, on moulded jambs with stops. To the right, the jamb has been cut out, and a later small fireplace inserted, but the intention is to replace this in the reconstruction. A large square lateral beam, and second beam carried over the bay window; both were formerly lathed and plastered. Remains of 17th century panelling. At a slightly lower level to the left of the entry is the kitchen, possibly the parlour of the first house, with a large reconstructed open fireplace, and an original 9-compartment ceiling with deep chamfered beams; the ceiling stops short from the fireplace wall by approx. 0.9m, and the lateral beam to the right is absorbed in the wall. The joists to the ceiling are set flush with the extrados of the beams, and run in alternate directions in the compartments. The roofs have been substantially restructured, but in the later range, in two large bays, some principal members remain. This is the most substantial remaining secular building dating from before the 18th century in this early village settlement. The former holding lies immediately to the W of All Saints' Church, Portland Road. Grade 2. (1) Manor Farmhouse dates from the late 16th century and is roughly rectangular in plan. The house is comprised of two distinct blocks, that to the north is the larger and appears to date to the last two decades of the 16th century. The block to the south was probably added in the early 17th century. The house appears to have been refurbished in stages throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, including the insertion of a stair hall in the north block and the addition of a two storey bay window in the east facade. The overall plan of the building is curious and implies that the present building represents only a fragment of the extent of the original house. (2)

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