Sadborow House
SADBOROW HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1118930
- Date first listed:
- 08-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Sadborow House
- Statutory Address:
- SADBOROW HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1118930
- Date first listed:
- 08-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Sadborow House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SADBOROW 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:
- SADBOROW HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Thorncombe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 37334 02022
Details
ST 30 SE THORNCOMBE SADBOROW 3/74 Sadborow House GV II* Country House in small park. Built between 1773 and 1775 by John Johnson, for John Bragge and cost £2,589 2s 4½ d . 1843: 2-storey wing was added on West additions and alterations in neo-grecian style. Portland Walls, with Ham stone Ashlar facing. Slate-and asphalt roofs of shallow pitch; The house is square in plan with the main entrance on the East front. The East, North and South fronts are symmetrically designed, of 3 storeys and with 5 window bays (East). Sashes with wooden glazing bars and crown glass. East front-plinth, flat-band at first floor level and a block cornice. Central entrance with blind arcading over ground floor windows. Stone porch with panelled sides: early 19C addition. Arcaded and pedimented chimney-stack over cornice early 19C. South front: wide semi-circular bay in middle to full height. North front: ground floor addition of early 19C to East 4 bays. Stone panel with relief carving of arms of Bragge impaling Sparrow, Bragge crest and date 1843. North entrance has stone surround of the original East entrance-doorway. Interior: Entrance hall opens into a domed staircase-hall in centre of house, and to full height. Entrance to domed hall has a wide elliptical arch carried on entablatures with fluted frieze, carried on columns and pilasters and fluted capitals. West wall of stair-hall semi-circular in plan. Stair with mahogany handrail with wrought iron balusters. Two openings and a recess in the stair-hall: 3 centred heads. Landing divided into 2 by an open screen of columns. Plasterwork of dome with panels containing arms and trophies, swags and rosettes. Skylight. Ground North-East room: open screen of 2 Ionic columns; frieze with arms and wreaths and a cornice. South-East room with festoons and small roundels containing figure subjects. South Drawing Room with large South bay. Plasterwork with anthemion details. White marble fire-place with Caryatid torch bearer, 2 cherubs in the imposts and central historiated neo-classical panel. Doorways of North-East and South-East rooms have added scroll-tops. Above are plaster panels with reliefs with an urn and confronting gryphons. Sadborow is a Neo-classical house of great external severity; The internal plaster-work is rather simplified, and of provincial quality. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p.246(4).
Listing NGR: ST3733402022
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 104656
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 246
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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