Compton House
COMPTON HOUSE, COMPTON PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119362
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Compton House
- Statutory Address:
- COMPTON HOUSE, COMPTON PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119362
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Compton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- COMPTON HOUSE, COMPTON PARK
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:
- COMPTON HOUSE, COMPTON PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Over Compton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 59412 16855
Details
OVER COMPTON ST 5816-5916 COMPTON PARK 14/94 Compton House 11.7.51 GV II
Manor House in grounds. Largely rebuilt 1839-43, after a fire in 1827, by the younger John Pinch of Bath, in mid C16 style. Ashlar stone walls with crenellated parapets. Front elevation has short octagonal corner finials throughout with crenellated strings, and ogival caps. Slate roofs. Groups of clustered octagonal stone stacks on and behind the ridge. 2½ storeys. 5 windows to front elevation. Canted bays to left and right of porch, of 2 storeys and gabled over. Gable over central porch. Mullion- and-transom windows, hollow-chamfered with separate labels of 3 lights to the front. Plain shields in niches between the ground and first floor windows. 3-light windows either side of the porch. Wooden sashes without glazing-bars, mid C19. Central porch has octagonal buttressing and finials, and with a steep gable over. Doorway with a 4 centred head and shield-of- arms over, 2-leaf doors glazed in top half. Rear range, east elevation, rubble-stone walls gabled at centre. Two storeys. 8 windows, mullion- and-transomed of 2 and 3 lights, with separate returned lables over. Wooden casements and glazing-bars. Doors, at left hadn end, centre, C20, plank at right hand end, C19. South and west elevations, similar compositions. Interior: staircase in Perpendicular style withtrefoil-cusped panelling and panelled newels, mid C19. Entrance hall has arch-braced roof, compartmented, carried on wood corbels, mid C19. Panelled doors throughout. (RCHM, Dorset I, p 103(2). J Newman and N Pevsner, Dorset, p 308.
Listing NGR: ST5941816857
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105636
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 103
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 308
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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