Portesham House
PORTESHAM HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118646
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Portesham House
- Statutory Address:
- PORTESHAM HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118646
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Portesham House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PORTESHAM 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:
- PORTESHAM HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Portesham
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 60165 85704
Details
SY 6085 PORTESHAM GOOSE HILL
11/193 Portesham House 26.1.56 GV II
Detached House. Late C18, with a re-modelled front in early C19. Coursed rubble- stone walls and dressed stone quoins. Dressed stone window jambs and voussoirs. Moulded stone cornice with a stone parapet over. Stone slate roofs with gable- copings. White brick stacks at end gables, with moulded cappings. Double-pile house with parallel ridges. 2 storeys with cellars and attics. 3 windows, sashes with thin glazing-bars, 4 panes' width, stone cills. Two C20 dormers, with 2-light wooden casements with glazing-bars. Flat tops. Front door at centre, with 6 ribbed panels with panelled reveals and heads. Rectangular fanlight over, with semi- circular internal form, and diagonal glazing-bars with husks. Front porch with Roman Doric columns and pilasters, fluted neckings, frieze and cornice, all painted white. Two stone lions on top of porch canopy. East gable-end has a rectangular window with marginal glazing-bars. Short rear wing, to full height, with stone- coped gable to rear, with moulded kneelers. Interior: central hallway with an elliptical archway with panelled jambs and reeded pilasters, with Roman Doric caps. Cornice with guilloche ornament and beading. Early C19 window-shutters with ribbed panels. Early C19 fireplaces in ground and first floor rooms. Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy lived here till his marriage in 1807. (RCHM Dorset II, p.243 (7)).
Listing NGR: SY6016585704
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105313
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 243
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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