East Hill House and Magnolia House
East Hill House, 8, East Hill, Charminster, DT2 9QL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119133
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- East Hill House and Magnolia House
- Statutory Address:
- East Hill House, 8, East Hill, Charminster, DT2 9QL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119133
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- East Hill House and Magnolia House
- Statutory Address 1:
- East Hill House, 8, East Hill, Charminster, DT2 9QL
- Statutory Address 2:
- Magnolia House, 1a, Mill Lane, Charminster, DT2 9QP
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:
- East Hill House, 8, East Hill, Charminster, DT2 9QL
- Statutory Address:
- Magnolia House, 1a, Mill Lane, Charminster, DT2 9QP
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Charminster
- National Grid Reference:
- SY6810192659
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 8 January 2024 to amend the name, address and reformat the text to current standards
SY 69 SE
7/16
CHARMINSTER
EAST HILL (North Side)
No 8
East Hill House
INCLUDING MILL LANE No 1A East Hill House
(Formerly listed as EAST HILL (North Side) East Hill House and Magnolia House)
26.1.56
GV
II
Small Villa with garden now two dwellings. Mid C18, drastically refashioned in early C19. Brick and rubble stone walls, stuccoed and painted, moulded string and low parapet. Slate roof, hipped. Stacks at hip ends. Two storeys with cellars and attics. Three windows, sashes with marginal, glazing bars, C19. Front door at centre, two-leaf flush-panelled with four top lights, rectangular fan light over, moulded architrave and entablature. Trelliswork verandah. West end wall with two storey bow window of mid C19. Sashes with marginal glazing bars. Round headed window to first floor corridor, C20 insertion. Later C19 addition at north west, formerly gabled, now with raised flat parapet.
Interior: stair in front hall with two right angle landings, stick balusters and ramped handrail. Oval gallery to second floor landing. Oval lantern dome over. Magnolia House attached at east end, later C19 former extension to East Hill House, yellow brick with hipped slate roof. Two storeys, one window, sashes without glazing bars. Access at rear, via C19 panelled door and C20 extension. (RCHM Dorset III p71(20))
Listing NGR: SY6810192659
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 106204
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 71
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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