Seaborough Court
SEABOROUGH COURT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211688
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jul-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Seaborough Court
- Statutory Address:
- SEABOROUGH COURT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211688
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jul-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Seaborough Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- SEABOROUGH COURT
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:
- SEABOROUGH COURT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Seaborough
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 42772 05947
Details
SEABOROUGH SEABOROUGH VILLAGE ST 40 NW 20.7.82 1/238 Seaborough Court - II
Country House. 1877, by T H Wyatt. Dressed stone walls, with ashlar dressings. Clay tile roofs, with 2 gables to the front. Clustered stone stacks on gable-ends and rear of tower. U-Plan, with entrance front on east, garden front on south, service wing on north. 2 storeys and attics. 4 bays (east). Bay one: 3-light canted oriel to first floor. Ovolo-stone mullions and stone roof over. Buttress-support to the corbelled-out oriel. 2-light stone mullion window in gable. Strapwork roundel above. Each gable has one crow-step set-off and a ball-finial at apex. Bay 2: Tower- porch entrance: 4-centred arch entrance, moulded jambs, carved spandrels. Diagonally-set standards frame carved armorial (Gough) and terminate each in a statue. Single-light first floor window, with cusped panelling in head. Two loop-lights above. Balustraded cornice. Tower top stage: 2 4-centred windows with panel tracery square heads; divided by pilasters. Massive cornice over Open strapwork parapet with urn-finials. Bay 3: 4-light stone mullion window with 2 cross-transoms. First floor with 2-light stone mullion window, transomed. Dormer window, 2-light mullion sashed, with a steep gable over. Bay 4: with square bay window to ground and first, with 2 2-light mullions, cross-transomed. Strapwork parapet to the bay. Similar, though not identical, window in the gable, to bay one. Same roundel, gable-coping and finial, as bay one. South elevation, main features: canted bay at left, of 3 storeys. Right hand bay, has a gable with stacks coming out of left hand side. Left hand ground: Conservatory, 3 bays with stone pilaster divisions and foliage capitals. Extreme left (west): Loggia, dated WEM 1907, 3 bays of Tuscan Order arches. Open fronted. Interior: Hall at centre, reception rooms to south, dining room and service wing to north. Hall staircase with barley-sugar, and turned-cube-turned balusters in pine. Large Perpendicular windows with stained glass armonials, including arms of Gough. Source: Mrs de Vallet, owner. N Pevsner, Dorset, p361.
Listing NGR: ST4277205947
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 396210
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 361
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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