Radipole Old Manor

Heritage listing

Details WEYMOUTH SY6681SE RADIPOLE LANE, Radipole 873-1/12/505 (North side) 12/12/53 Radipole Old Manor GV II* Manor house. Late C16, but incorporating some earlier C16 work in the E wing. For Richard Watkins (RCHME). Coursed and squared stone with Portland ashlar dressings, slate roofs, with some stone slate to eaves courses. PLAN: a long principal range in one-room depth is set gable to the road, and the W front adjoins the churchyard to the Church of St Ann (qv). The full-height porch on the E side is balanced by a similar stair turret on the churchyard side, and the earlier wing projects immediately adjacent to the porch. The original layout seems to have been to an L-plan, with a cross passage to the stair turret, and hall to the left, and kitchens with service range to the right of the porch. EXTERIOR: in 3 storeys, most windows are recessed hollow-chamfer moulded mullion stone casements, mainly with stopped labels. The entrance front has 2 coped gables to the left, with 3- over 4- over 5-light windows to each; the porch has 2-light at each level, and on the E side a doorway with 4-centred head and moulded stopped surround, under a pediment, with an inverted shield carrying the initials RW. The opening has a pair of iron gates, backed by plate glass. The inner doorway is similar, without the pediment, over a wide plank door on strap hinges; to its right, in the corner, is a small rectangular 'squint' window. The earlier gabled range to the right of the porch is in 2 storeys and attic with a 2-light casement without labels at ground and first floors. The gable has a stack, and a flush 2-light leaded casement, without mullion, to the attic, above a replica 2-light. The rear wall has a 3-light wooden leaded casement above a 2-light (formerly 3) and a C20 glazed door.

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.