West Lodge. (That Part in the Parish of Iwerne Minster)
WEST LODGE. (THAT PART IN THE PARISH OF IWERNE MINSTER)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1172300
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- West Lodge. (That Part in the Parish of Iwerne Minster)
- Statutory Address:
- WEST LODGE. (THAT PART IN THE PARISH OF IWERNE MINSTER)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1172300
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- West Lodge. (That Part in the Parish of Iwerne Minster)
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEST LODGE. (THAT PART IN THE PARISH OF IWERNE MINSTER)
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:
- WEST LODGE. (THAT PART IN THE PARISH OF IWERNE MINSTER)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Iwerne Minster
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 89415 15742
Details
ST 81 NE IWERNE MINSTER WEST LODGE
2/156 West Lodge. (That part in the parish of Iwerne Minster)also in the parish of Sutton Waldron I
Country House. Early C19 remodelling of an C18 building possibly incorporating parts of the fabric of a C17 or earlier hunting lodge. South east front is rendered and whitewashed, other walls largely of whitewashed brick (Flemish bond). Central pavilion and south-west wing slated, north-east ranges tiled. Brick and rendered stacks in various positions. Part single storey, part 2 storey. Basements and attics. Near symmetrical. Main range of 11 bays. 3:5:3. Central gabled pavilion has an attached, giant, tetrastyle, Tuscan portico with greens and ashlar columns. These support a wooden entablature and pediment. The slope of the pediment is continued down over the outer bays of the central pavilion The extremities of the centre pavilion are defined by pilaster strips. The flanking wings have-parapets partially concealing the roofs. Main windows are 15-pane sashes, those to the central pavilion having been slightly reduced in height to accommodate the insertion of a first floor. Central 3 bays have 3 circular windows. Outer bays of central pavilion have 4-pane sashes to the upper floor. Lunette window in the pediment. Pilastered doorways with part-glazed doors to outer bays of central pavilion, that to the right has a pediment. The rear facade has a number of mullioned and transomed windows with leaded-lights in wrought-iron casements. Central wooden porch with pedimental hood on Ionic columns an pilasters.
Internally most features are of the C19. The south-west staircase has case-iron balusters and newel-posts.
The house is of considerable interest both because of its origin as a hunting lodge on Cranborne Chase and because the C19 work is an exercise in deliberate neo-classical primitivism. Part in the parish of Sutton Waldron.
(RCHM, Dorset, vol. IV, p. 38, no. 3. Newman, J and Pevsner, N. The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972, p.240).
Listing NGR: ST8941515742
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103246
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Royal Commission on Historic Monuments; Inventory of Dorset Vol 4, (1972), 38
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 240
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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