Whatcombe House
WHATCOMBE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1118543
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Whatcombe House
- Statutory Address:
- WHATCOMBE HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1118543
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Whatcombe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHATCOMBE HOUSE
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:
- WHATCOMBE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Winterborne Whitechurch
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 83735 01295
Details
WINTERBORNE WHITECHURCH ST 80 SW WHATCOMBE
3/181 Whatcombe House 14-7-55 - II*
Country house, 1750 with alterations and extensions of 1802. For Edward Morton Pleydell. Rendered walls with ashlar dressings and lead roofs concealed behind parapets. Symmetrical 3 storeys, 7 bays. The central bay is defined by a giant order of coupled Ionic pilasters. 12-pane sashes to the first two floors and 6-pane sashes to the upper storey. The doorway is in the form of a Palladian motif with the lunette over the doorway bearing a shield of arms. The double door is part-glazed. The central second bay has a Palladian window with acanthus capitals. Above is a heavy dentilled cornice. Above the third storey is a further cornice surmounted by a parapet with blind panels.
Internal features: entrance hall has an C18 rococo plaster ceiling with modillion cornice and C19 doorcases with reeded architraves; the drawing room has an C18 rococo plaster ceiling, a matching fireplace surround and doorways with enriched, moulded, lugged architraves; C18 stone staircase with moulded handrail supported on wrought-iron balusters with foliate and scroll enrichment; various C19 fire- places and plasterwork. (RCHM, Dorset, vol.III, p.311, no.3. Newman, J and Pevsner, N., The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972, p.488-9).
Listing NGR: ST8373501295
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103597
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 311
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 488-9
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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