Listed Building record MDO9421 - Manor Farm, formerly Manor House, West Stafford

A manor house, later a farmhouse, built in the seventeenth century and remodelled by George White at some time between 1702 and 1718. The north front was remodelled in the nineteenth century. The building is built on a U-shaped plan, and has stone walls, partly covered in render, and a tiled roof. Surviving features of the interior include early 18th-century panelling, cornices and a fireplace surround.

The Manor of Stafford or Bingham's Manor. A small manor situated at the east end of the parish, with the patronage of a little chapel. In 1304 Robt Bingham held a capital messuage and 24 acres, a holding increased by his descendants. The manor house was probably much altered by the White family circa 1720, although the main part of the building is of earlier date. The chapel stood a little to the east of the ancient manor house and was called the free chapel in Bingham's Court. It has long been desecreted. According to the Sarum registers the Binghams presented the rectors from 1317-1470. <1> The house is no longer called "Manor Farm" but "The Manor House". The owner has no knowledge of the chapel or its site. <3> Manor Farm formerly Manor House, is of two storeys with attic and has walls of stone partly rendered in stucco and slate-covered roof. The house was built on a U-shaped plan in the 17th century and remodelled by George White between 1702 and 1718, these limiting dates being given by the arms of White impaling Baynard with inescutcheon of Baynard on the East elevation (George White married Mary (Baynard), widow of James Parkyns, Rector of Corfe, who died in 1702; Mary died in 1718). The North front was remodelled in the 19th century. <4> Manor House. One of the most noteworthy houses in the district. <5> 'The Manor House' (name confirmed) is as described by auths <1> and <4>. No further information relating to the Chapel. <6>

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