Gaunt's House (Dumpton School)

Gaunt's House (Dumpton School), Hinton Martell

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1120104
Date first listed:: 04-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: Gaunt's House (Dumpton School)
Statutory Address:: Gaunt's House (Dumpton School), Hinton Martell

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1120104
Date first listed:: 04-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: Gaunt's House (Dumpton School)
Statutory Address 1:: Gaunt's House (Dumpton School), Hinton Martell

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Gaunt's House (Dumpton School), Hinton Martell

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Hinton
National Grid Reference:: SU 01640 04368

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 03/06/2020

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HINTON MARTELL Gaunt's House (Dumpton School)

(Formerly listed as Gaunt's House (Drumpton School)) II Country house, used as school. Original building 1809. Architect William Evans of Wimborne, for Sir Richard Carr Glyn. Greatly enlarged and refaced, 1887. Architect George Devey. Brick walls, slate roofs with parapets and coped gables. Brick stacks set irregularly. Mostly two storeys and attic.

Main entrance front has, at left end, a square, four-storeyed tower, with battlemented parapet on corbel table. Raised brick quoins. Two plain sashes on first floor, one on second floor, three on third floor. Right of the tower a range with five Flemish style gables; the centre bay projecting slightly. In this bay, ground and first floors each have two plain triple sashes, under brick hoodmoulds, one similar sash in attic. Left of bay, ground and first floors each have three plain sashes under hoodmoulds; hoodmoulds on first floor linked by string course.Two similar sashes in attic. Right of the bay, two similar sashes on each floor and, at right end, an open stone portico with flat roof and cornice supported on pairs of Ionic columns. (This may be the original entrance - re-set). On the main roof an octagonal timber bell turret with ogee shaped lead cap and weathervane.

At right end of the house the original 1809 villa projects forward. This also of two storeys and attic. Central multi-flue stack with ornamental cap. Two Flemish style gables linked by balustraded parapet. On ground floor, the original entrance replaced by a Venetian window, with Tuscan pilasters. In the solid tympanum, a terracotta bust of Queen Victoria, with inscriptions commemorating the original building and its extension, - marking Jubilee Year. Flanking this, on ground floor, two sashes with glazing bars each side, with ornamental terracotta plaques over. Five similar sashes on first floor, with stone band course below cills. Two plain sashes in attic. At right end a single storey extension with open parapet. At left end a range of single storey attached outbuildings.

Internally, in original house, stone stair with iron balustrade. Good ornamental plaster ceiling in Drawing Room. Other rooms have enriched cornices, and fireplace surrounds. Some mahogany panelled doors. Reputedly Devey's last work.

Listing NGR: SU0164004368

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Legacy System number:: 107488
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1975)
Hutchins, J, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset, (1861), 244
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.