Frome House
FROME HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1119410
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Frome House
- Statutory Address:
- FROME HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1119410
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Frome House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FROME 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:
- FROME HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Frome St. Quintin
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 59731 02661
Details
ST 50 SE FROME ST QUINTIN FROME ST QUINTIN VILLAGE
3/122 Frome House 26.1.56 GV II*
Detached House in grounds. Dated G Baker AD 1782 on the south porch. Brick walls in header-bond . Fluted stone plat-band with regularly-spaced rosettes. Modillion brick cornice and brick parapet. Slate roofs, hipped, in behind parapets. Large brick stacks, left and right of centre on spine wall. Brick stack on north ridge. 3 bays to main entrance front, with 3 bays to north of this. Two storeys with attics. Canted bay at centre, first floor with porch below, on columns. Sashes with thin glazing-bars, gauged brick- voussoirs, fluted keystones, stone cills. The 3-sided porch has Roman Doric stone columns with fluted neckings and pilasters to wall, moulded entablature, using plat-band motif in frieze, though lower. The canted bay window over has rusticated masonry, stone architraves to windows, stone cills with moulded consoles underneath, sashes with thin glazing-bars. Entrance has a stone niche either side, round- headed. Doorway has moulded round-headed architrave with bossed imposts. 6 recess-panel door, C20. Three bays to north, match the southern three. South elevation 4 bays. The north-east wing of the house is C20, it has 2 C16 2-light mullion windows reset.
(RCHM Dorset I, pl18(2))
Listing NGR: ST5973102661
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105447
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 118
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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