Maiden Newton House
MAIDEN NEWTON HOUSE, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215137
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Maiden Newton House
- Statutory Address:
- MAIDEN NEWTON HOUSE, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215137
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Maiden Newton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAIDEN NEWTON HOUSE, CHURCH ROAD
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:
- MAIDEN NEWTON HOUSE, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Maiden Newton
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 59644 97848
Details
MAIDEN NEWTON SY 5997 CHURCH ROAD, (west side)
10/87 Maiden Newton House 26-1-56 GV II
Rectory, now private house. Dated 1842 stone tablet over doorway: AS (Scott) MDCCCXLII on a stone shield with cusped framing. Greensand rubble and banded stone walls. Ham stone window-frames, and plinth moulding. Clay-tile roofs, stone gable-copings with moulded kneelers. Ham stone stacks, on south range, coupled on east and west elevations with crenellated cornices, and in the angle of the 2 ranges. On north range, 3 C20 stacks, 2 on ridge, one on east gable end. L-Plan house. North-east range, 2 storeys, 3 windows, having stone-mullions, straight-chamfered with pointed arches under a square head separate labels, returned. Cast-iron casements with lozenge-pattern of glazing-bars. Doorway, left of centre, with moulded jambs and a 4-centred head. Panelled C19 door with scroll-hinges. South-range: 2 storeys, gabled at North end, and with a porch at south end. 4 bays total. Windows are all 2-light cast-iron casements with rectilinear pattern of glazing-bars lozenged at the intersections. Buttresses to the centre bays with 2 set-offs each, (staircase well). Porch south of staircase, with pointed-arch entrance, label with head-stops of man and woman. Pointed-arch doorway, has a wooden door, recess-panelled throughout. Stone tablet with carved image of St Christopher over porch entrance. Canted bays, on south end wall, square projecting bay north-west corner.
Interior: original fittings survive intact, and form an interesting example of the period, rib-panel doors, window-shutters, segmental rere-arches to windows, fireplaces. Staircase with octagonal newel and alternating plain (wood) and twisted cast-iron) balusters. (RCHM. Dorset I, p.152 (4).)
Listing NGR: SY5964697848
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 400177
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 152
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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