Wootton House
WOOTTON HOUSE, WOOTTON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287157
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Wootton House
- Statutory Address:
- WOOTTON HOUSE, WOOTTON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1287157
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Wootton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOOTTON HOUSE, WOOTTON LANE
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:
- WOOTTON HOUSE, WOOTTON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wootton Fitzpaine
- National Grid Reference:
- SY3711995599
Details
WOOTTON FITZPAINE
SY 39 SE
5/216
(4/66 (1))
WOOTTON LANE
Wootton House
7.8.52
II
Country house in landscaped grounds. c 1765 and late C19. Main range, C18 to south (south front) with later wings added on north east and north west. Brick walls in Flemish bond with rusticated stone quoins, slate-hung central bay to full height, two stone plat bands and a moulded cornice. Hipped slate roof, low, behind parapet. c 1900 brick stacks at east and west parapets with moulded stone cornices. South elevation: Three storeys. Five windows, central bay is half-octagonal. Sashes with moulded flush window architraves, French window to ground floor centre. Crown glass. Orangery, now swimming pool, at left hand end, C19. Brick with stone French window surrounds. Dentil cornice and brick parapet over. Four bays. Stone urns at parapet corners. East elevation has a c 1900 brick facing and c 1900 stone porch with Gibbs surround and pediment over. Interior: ground floor rooms with restrained plasterwork. Marble fireplace with yellow Siena marble flutings. Staircase with mahogany hand rail and turned balusters. Mahogany doors. Chinese wallpaper, imitation of c 1880, by Slade students.
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 27 July 2016.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 403170
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 266
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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