Chalmington House
CHALMINGTON HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118661
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Chalmington House
- Statutory Address:
- CHALMINGTON HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118661
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Chalmington House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHALMINGTON 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:
- CHALMINGTON HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cattistock
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 59383 00884
Details
ST 50 SE CATTISTOCK CHALMINGTON
3/18 Chalmington House 26.1.56 GV II
Large House in grounds. Possible late C16 core, with C19 rebuilding and extension, infill of rear courtyard. Rubble-stone walls, rendered, two stone strings, moulded stone parapet with bowtell. Slate roofs with gable-ends, and three gables to front with barley-sugar finials. Rendered and brick stacks on west end wall, and on main ridge. 2½ storeys. Main south elevation: 7 windows, sashes with horizontal glazing-bars flat architraves with stone cills and console-brackets under. Tower porch at centre, 2½ storeys, front doorway with moulded architrave, 6 recess-panel door with 2 toplights over, C19. Extensions to house at east end (right angles), with triple gabling and 6 barley-sugar finials. Oriel to right of secondary porch, with transomed stone mullions and double-crenellated string. Tower- porch, with C19 door, depressed-arch head and label over.
(RCHM Dorset I, p72(3))
Listing NGR: ST5938300884
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105343
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 72
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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