East Almer Lodge
EAST ALMER LODGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249743
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- East Almer Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- EAST ALMER LODGE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249743
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- East Almer Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- EAST ALMER LODGE
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:
- EAST ALMER LODGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sturminster Marshall
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 91893 99197
Details
STURMINSTER MARSHALL SY 99 NW CHARBOROUGH PARK 9/58 East Almer Lodge 18.3.55 - II A gateway, incorporating a lodge. c1840. Stucco. A classical design, with a tall arch flanked by plain wide pilasters, having simple mouldings to cornice and architrave, and a deep frieze containing a stone panel; at the top is a pediment filled with an armorial relief. The bold impost moulding continues at each side as the cornice to flanking single-storeyed pavilions (the lodge) which end in pilasters, each with a central window (blocked on the north elevation). Within the arch, there is a niche above a doorway. A small service wing, with a slate roof, extends at the west side. There are ornamental wrought iron gates. The panel on the road front (facing north) is inscribed "This Road from Wimborne to Dorchester was projected and completed through the instrumentality of J S W SAWBRIDGE ERLE DRAX Esq MP in the Years 1811 and 1812". The panel on the south side has a worn inscription, referring to the closure of the road by order of the Magistrates in 1811. RCHM
Listing NGR: SY9189399197
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 431943
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset II South East, (1970)
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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