Henbury Hall Henbury House
HENBURY HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1120055
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Henbury Hall Henbury House
- Statutory Address:
- HENBURY HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1120055
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Henbury Hall Henbury House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HENBURY HALL
- Statutory Address 2:
- HENBURY 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:
- HENBURY HALL
- Statutory Address:
- HENBURY HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sturminster Marshall
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 95675 98223
Details
STURMINSTER MARSHALL SY 99 NE 10/47 Henbury House 18.3.55 and Henbury Hall - II* Country mansion, linked to a stable block; to be converted to many residential units. Early and late C18, mid C19 extensions and alterations. Walls of brickwork in Flemish bond, rubbed flat arches, stone cills and stone dressings to the front (quoins, Diocletian window frame and porch); stables of Flemish and English bonds, with cambered openings. Hipped tile roof, with moulded eaves cornice to the front, brick dentil eaves to the stables. Symmetrical north west front of two storeys, basement, and attic, with Victorian half-octagonal wings extending (set back) at each end, 1:1:1:1:1 windows, the slightly projecting centrepiece has a pediment, with an oval device (of stucco), with rustic quoins at each side and at the ends of the main block; the basement openings are cambered. Sashes in reveals. The porch, raised on a brick base, has a Tuscan Order of two columns and two pilasters, and at each side there is a curving flight of eight steps, with iron rails; the door is half-glazed beneath a fixed light. The rear elevation once comprised wings projecting from the sides of the main block, but the (narrow) middle space is now filled (C19) with a deep window above a glazed porch, which leads onto a paved terrace (with flanking iron rails) and to a stairway. Symmetrical elevation of two storeys, basement, and attic 1:1:1 (2 at the 1st floor wings) windows, those of the ground floor of triple lights beneath blind arches with plastered tympana. Attached to the east end of the building is a 3-storeyed wing of the mid C19, with Gothic oriels to the 1st floor at each end; from its east corner there is a link to the stable block. This is a two storeyed building with irregular vernacular features. The chief interior feature is the original staircase. RCHM
Listing NGR: SY9567598223
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 107674
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970)
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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