BOVERIDGE HOUSE
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1153468
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-1986
- Statutory Address:
- BOVERIDGE HOUSE
Map
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- BOVERIDGE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cranborne
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 06986 14759
Details
CRANBORNE
SU 01.SE BOVERIDGE
7/8 Boveridge House
II
Country House, now school. Early C19 with additions dated 1887 and 1920. For
Henry Brouncher by William Evans of Wimborne. Slate and lead roofs largely
concealed behind parapets. Brick stacks with moulded caps in various locations.
Double plat bands between which are brick panels below window openings. 2 storeys
and attics, 7 bays (5 to original house). Sash windows in lugged ashlar
architraves, 12-pane below and 9-pane above. Panelled parapet with integral
pedimented dormers. Central late C19 canted bay with balustraded parapet and
French doors. Open loggia at right angles left. Greek Doric tetrastyle portico
to west facade.
Internally, the main rooms have moulded cornices, panelling and various enrichments mainly in a mid-C18 style. Several marble fireplaces possibly reset from else where; stone staircase with wrought-iron balustrade and moulded handrail; apsidal entrance hall with Ionic colonnade; 1920 drawing room high quality panelling with pilastered fireplace and shell-headed niches. (RCHM, Dorset, vol. V, p.13-14, No. 20.)
Listing NGR: SU0698614759
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 107345
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1975), 13-14
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 12 Dorset,
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
