Donore
Donore, Long Street, Sherborne, DT9 3BS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110711
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Donore
- Statutory Address:
- Donore, Long Street, Sherborne, DT9 3BS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110711
- Date first listed:
- 28-Nov-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Oct-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Donore
- Statutory Address 1:
- Donore, Long Street, Sherborne, DT9 3BS
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Donore, Long Street, Sherborne, DT9 3BS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sherborne
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 64144 16632
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23 August 2022 to update the name and address, amend the Group value sentence in the description and to reformate text to current standards.
ST 6416
2/142
LONG STREET (north west side)
Donore
(Formerly listed as The Whire Cottage, previously listed as The Cottage)
28.11.50.
GV
II
Stone rubble-construction. Probably late C17 with later pebble-dash finish. Detached house on corner of St Swithin's Road with two storey five window front. Wood casements with lead glazing and original stays and catches. New slate roof. Gable-ends with stone parapet copings. Two hipped dormers. Doorway has hood on moulded and voluted brackets six-panelled door.
Within, an early C18 linen painting of a hunting scene was found beneath eleven layers of wallpaper (see analysis in Sherborne Museum).
The Red House, Grey Lodge, Forecourt walls and railings to The Red House, Donore, Wall railings and gate to Donore, Eastbury House, including carriage entrance to east and garden wall to west, Elizabeth House, Bracondale, The Cedars, East Cedars, Garden wall adjoining The Cedars on the west side, Corby House, Hill View Lodge, Masongill, Glenville and Long Street Post Office form a group.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 104031
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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