Boveridge House
BOVERIDGE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1153468
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Boveridge House
- Statutory Address:
- BOVERIDGE HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1153468
- Date first listed:
- 03-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Boveridge House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOVERIDGE 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:
- 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.
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