Dunshay Manor gets a somewhat laconic entry in Pevsner under Worth Matravers, doesn’t appear in the index and there is no mention of the striking and unusual gate posts.  A very uncharacteristic lapse. 

The house repays close study, not just for it fifteenth-century origins, but for the quality of its renovation in 1906 by Philip Sturdy, a local arts-and-crafts architect; and, not least, the history of the house under its former owners, George Spencer Watson RA, and his Australian wife who underwent psychoanalysis in Switzerland with Jung and performed Bakstian dramas in a makeshift theatre in the former dairy; and then their daughter, Mary Spencer Watson, who was trained in the Royal Academy Schools, studied in Paris, made figurative sculpture, fell in love with the wife of her tenants, and bequeathed Dunshay to the Landmark Trust. 

It’s a beautiful house:-

And then there are those gateposts:-