Listed Building record MDO8942 - Delcombe Manor, Delcombe

Country house, built around 1750 in Romantic Gothic style, re-using medieval material from Milton Abbey.

This house is unoccupied, but it is described as Delcombe Manor on a name board at the drive entrance. The house is 85.0m long and composed of two main blocks, joined by small gabled buildings. It is of single and double storeys, and the south west front is mostly of alternate bands of flint and stone, in which there are five 2-light windows and one single light window probably 15th or 16th century and the archway with the Milton rebus and date 1515. The frontage is a sham antiquity. It has been designed and built as a whole and includes ornamental buttresses. Close examination showed that the stone and flint work and the stone buttresses are simply a facing upon brickwork. The regular and ornamental style, and some probably original windows at the rear of the house suggest that it was constructed in the late 18th century. There is no evidence to show that a building previously existed at the site, and it seems likely that this house was designed to incorporate material from Milton Abbey, when the latter was demolished between 1730 and 1771. <2> Delcombe Manor. A two-storey building with walls mainly of banded flint and ashlar and tiled roofs, built 1750 with materials form the Medieval Abbey (ST 70 SE 27). It comprises three separate buildings joined by a long screen wall facing south-west; at the north-west end is a room known at the 'chapel'. The screen wall in the centre, forms the south-west front of the Manor House, and has three bays defined by diagonal buttresses. Further to the south-east, Abbot William's rebus and the date 1515, is reset over a doorway in the screen. The cottage at the extreme south-east end, is similar to the Manor House <3>. because of the reused Medieval materials. <3,4>

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Feb 8 2022 1:23PM