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Afflington

There was a flourishing village at Afflington in connection with the marble and stone industries of the Later Medieval period to which Henry III granted a market and a fair in 1270 (Legg 1989: 13).

 

Afflington Manor Farm

Manor farm up for sale

From the Daily Echo (Bournemouth) published Friday 9 July 2004.

WELL-KNOWN Purbeck family, the Scotts, are selling an historic manor house they had planned to make their family home.

Rupert Scott, who sold Encombe House, near Kingston, two years ago for a reported £16million, has now put Afflington Manor Farm on the market for an estimated £2.25million.

Afflington Manor Farm, between Corfe Castle and Swanage, is a Grade II listed 17th-century manor house set in 360 acres.

The Scott family are believed to be dividing their time between Purbeck and the south of France. The family still owns a substantial amount of land in Purbeck along with a number of properties.

Afflington Manor Farm had been the subject of heated debate among planning chiefs at Purbeck District Council over a complex set of proposals for alterations.

Objections were raised over the cumulative effect of the alterations but, after months of negotiations, planning chiefs finally gave the go-ahead on plans which included building a swimming pool and converting pigsties into boiler and changing rooms.

The courtyard manor house is believed to date from 1620 but the building is currently stripped internally in preparation for a complete renovation.

Some of the original features are still intact including flagstone floors, shuttered windows and exposed beams.

The building had been extensively remodelled during Victorian times and little had changed since. More recently it was used as accommodation for farm workers.

The sale is being handled by FPDSavills

 

Planning applications:

Afflington Manor

Formation of external door opening and replace roof structure to garden room; various internal  alterations: Appoved 3 May 2006

 

Afflington Manor appears among the breeders listed by the British Alpaca Society.

 

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Afflington Farm