Bloxworth House, Including the Attached Wall and Gate Piers on East
BLOXWORTH HOUSE, INCLUDING THE ATTACHED WALL AND GATE PIERS ON EAST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1171112
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Bloxworth House, Including the Attached Wall and Gate Piers on East
- Statutory Address:
- BLOXWORTH HOUSE, INCLUDING THE ATTACHED WALL AND GATE PIERS ON EAST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1171112
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Bloxworth House, Including the Attached Wall and Gate Piers on East
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLOXWORTH HOUSE, INCLUDING THE ATTACHED WALL AND GATE PIERS ON EAST
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:
- BLOXWORTH HOUSE, INCLUDING THE ATTACHED WALL AND GATE PIERS ON EAST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bloxworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 87934 94961
Details
SY 89 SE BLOXWORTH
6/67 Bloxworth House, 20/11/59 including the attached wall and gate piers on east
GV I
Countryhouse. Built 1608 (former date stone in porch). Altered in C18 and C19 and considerably restored c 1970. Brick walls, with some burnt header decoration, on stone plinth. Tiled roofs with stone eaves courses and coped gables. Brick stacks on ridge and gables, with oversailing caps - some with diagonal shafts. Originally of E-plan form. 2 storeys and attics. Main (north) elevation has central gabled porch - full height. Square-headed doorway with moulded stone surround. 3-light stone mullioned window on first floor and similar 2-light windows in attic. Projecting gabled wings at each end. East (kitchen) wing has a 4-light stone mullioned window on ground floor, a 3-light double-hung sash window with glazing bars on first floor, and a 3-light stone mullioned window in attic. Adjoining this a square stair tower with hipped roof and 2 2-light stone mullioned windows. Recessed sections each side of porch have 3-light stone mullioned windows on each floor. C20 reconstructed stair turret adjoins west (parlour) wing. This wing has an added C18 central bay, with double-hung sashes with glazing bars under gauged arches with keystones. Parapet to bay, with ball finials. Above this, in attic, a timber casement window. This, and all the stone mullioned windows, have lead lights, incorporating some reset C16 stained glass. C19 west extension to parlour wing has a canted bay with stone mullioned windows. Internally, the hall has a C17 stone fireplace with 4-centred arch. Similar, simple fireplace in room over. C17 plank and muntin partition in kitchen. Some first floor rooms have C18 fireplaces with hob grates. Early C19 stair in east tower. In attic, one blocked doorway with 4-centred head. Curved brackets below attic ceiling just east of porch - possible site of former cross-gable. Early example of brickwork in Dorset.
Attached boundary wall on east links house to stables (q.v.). Brick wall with moulded coping, and stone gate piers with moulded caps and ball finials - probably C18. RCHM Monument 2.
Listing NGR: SY8793494961
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 108340
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (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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