Kingston House, Including Attached Stable and Coach House
KINGSTON HOUSE, INCLUDING ATTACHED STABLE AND COACH HOUSE, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1231398
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Kingston House, Including Attached Stable and Coach House
- Statutory Address:
- KINGSTON HOUSE, INCLUDING ATTACHED STABLE AND COACH HOUSE, WEST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1231398
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Kingston House, Including Attached Stable and Coach House
- Statutory Address 1:
- KINGSTON HOUSE, INCLUDING ATTACHED STABLE AND COACH HOUSE, WEST 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:
- KINGSTON HOUSE, INCLUDING ATTACHED STABLE AND COACH HOUSE, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Corfe Castle
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 95514 79478
Details
CORFE CASTLE WEST STREET, KINGSTON SY 95 79 (South side) 6/193 Kingston House, including attached stable and coach 20.11.59 house (formerly listed as "Estate Office, formerly Vicarage") - II House, former vicarage. Probably c1880. Architect G E Street. Tooled ashlar stone walls, with plinth. Stone slate roofs with coped gables. Ashlar stacks with moulded caps and semi-octagonal ends. Irregular plan. In Gothic Revival style. 2 storeys - part with basement. Entrance front has projecting gabled wings at each end. The right part of the central recessed section infilled with a block, part gabled, and part flat-roofed with parapet. Recessed section left of this has a lean-to extension at basement level. Left end projection has central buttress; string course under first floor windows. Basement has two 2-light stone mullioned windows. Ground floor has one 2-light stone mullioned and transomed window with lead lights in upper part. Similar 5-light window on first floor. Right of this, the basement lean-to has two 2-light stone mullioned windows. Ground floor, above this, has a 2-light stone mullioned window under 4-centred arch. Two 2-light stone mullioned windows on first floor. In the centre infill block, panelled door in 4-centred arch in square frame with hood- mould. Right of door, two 3-light stone mullioned and transomed windows under continuous hoodmould, separated by buttress with moulded offsets. On first floor, above door, two 2-light stone mullioned windows. Right of these, two 2-light stone mullioned and transomed windows with lead lights in upper parts. In right end projecting wing, ground floor has two 2-light stone mullioned and transomed windows with lead lights in upper parts, with hoodmoulds. Similar 3-light window on first floor, and small single-light window in gable over. Stone steps lead up to entrance, with stone balustrade walls. partly pierced, with ogee-headed openings. Interior not inspected but reputed to contain C17 panelling - probably from Encombe House (q.v.). Attached stables and coach house on east, in matching construction. Door openings and loft door on north. (Drawing in "The Architect". September 21. 1878).
Listing NGR: SY9551479478
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109346
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Architect in 21 September, (1878)
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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