The Manor House and Stable Block
THE MANOR HOUSE AND STABLE BLOCK, NORTH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1220906
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House and Stable Block
- Statutory Address:
- THE MANOR HOUSE AND STABLE BLOCK, NORTH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1220906
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Manor House and Stable Block
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE MANOR HOUSE AND STABLE BLOCK, NORTH STREET
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:
- THE MANOR HOUSE AND STABLE BLOCK, NORTH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Beaminster
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 48244 01409
Details
BEAMINSTER NORTH STREET ST 4701/4801 12-6-53 (NORTH SIDE) 7/109 The Manor House and stable block GV II*
Manor House. Late C18 and 1822 remodelling by Underwood. Stone walls, stuccoed. Rusticated quoins with a moulded cornice and plain parapet. Slate roof, hipped. Rendered stacks, 2 behind front wall parapet. 2 storeys, 5 bays, sash-windows with thin glazing-bars. Straight bay- window at right hand ground, tripartite sash without glazing-bars. Centre bay projects slightly and is defined by rusticated quoins. Stone porch, early C19, with coupled Doric columns, triglyph frieze and heavy ogee cornice. Front door at centre, wooden with glass panels over, C20. Rear elevation is of plain stone ashlar. Interior: Big Drawing Room: ceiling-painting by Andrea Casali (c.1720-c.1780) of the feast of the Gods, moved from Fonthill. Plasterwork surround with rinceaux decoration. Palmette plaster cornice, and garlanded frieze below. Fireplace, also front Fonthill, in white and Siena marble, with 3 scenes from Siege of Troy in the mantel shelf. Voluted side-pilasters with warriors sitting on top of the volutes. Egg- and-dart moulding to base of frieze, and dentil-cornice above. Plasterwork overmantel to fireplace, c. early C19 with oval centre with possibly Homer at centre. Rinceau decoration to the surrounding area. Source: R.C.H.M. Dorset, I, p 23 (6). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, (ed. 1930), vol I, p264.
Listing NGR: ST4824101413
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 394592
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 23
Bryan, , Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, (1930), 264
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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