Forston House and Attached Terrace Walls to West
FORSTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED TERRACE WALLS TO WEST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1119094
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Forston House and Attached Terrace Walls to West
- Statutory Address:
- FORSTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED TERRACE WALLS TO WEST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1119094
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Forston House and Attached Terrace Walls to West
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORSTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED TERRACE WALLS TO WEST
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:
- FORSTON HOUSE AND ATTACHED TERRACE WALLS TO WEST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Charminster
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 66581 95742
Details
CHARMINSTER FORSTON SY 69 NE
3/23 Forston House and attached terrace 26.1.56 walls to west
- II*
Large house in grounds. Early C18, built by Robert Browne of Frampton. Brick walls in Flemish bond with ashlar dressings, of quoins and plat bands. Slate roofs with parallel ridges, masked by the attic storey. Brick stacks with stone cornices, placed centrally on parallel ridges. C18, 2-room by 2-room cube plan with central hall and staircase from west to east. West elevation: 2 storeys and an attic storey, with ashlar plinths, strings, parapet coping and flush quoins. Parapet wall screens the attics, but to each side it sweeps down in a bold curve to a little above eaves level where it is surmounted by decorative vases. 5 windows, and 3 windows to attic storey. Double hung sashes with glazing bars have plain stone architraves. Central doorway has been remodelled and provided with a C20 architrave and reset early C18 wooden canopy on carved console brackets. Door with bottom panel, and remainder 12 lights with glazing bars. East elevation, lower storey is concealed by later additions, but otherwise is similar in design to west front. North and south elevations of 2 storeys, 4 windows, uniform sashes. South front has a moulded stone eaves cornice which returns. North side of house concealed by a C20 wing, the north front of which has a curvilinear gable similar in style to that of west front. Reset over the C20 doorway is a stone pediment on console brackets with cartouche in trio tympanum carved with the arms of Browne. Pediment is of the early C18 and may have been transferred from the west front. Interior: any of the rooms are panelled, some with original bolection-moulded panelling with panelled dados and moulded dado-rails. The oak staircase has been extensively repaired; it has turned and moulded newels and balusters and a moulded handrail. The attached terrace to the west of the house has low ashlar walls with flat copings and pedestal piers supporting C18 urns. (RCHM Dorset III p69(6))
Listing NGR: SY6658195742
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 106211
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 69
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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