Gussage House
GUSSAGE HOUSE, VILLAGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323464
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Gussage House
- Statutory Address:
- GUSSAGE HOUSE, VILLAGE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323464
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Gussage House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GUSSAGE HOUSE, VILLAGE 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:
- GUSSAGE HOUSE, VILLAGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Gussage All Saints
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 99927 10726
Details
GUSSAGE ALL SAINTS ST 91 SE VILLAGE STREET (South-west side)
5/41 Gussage House 18.3.55
II
Rectory, now private house, late C17 with C18 and C19 alterations. For Col. Joshua Churchill. Brick with some mathematical tiles. Hipped, tiled roof with brick stack left of centre. Stucco quoins, moulded wooden cornice and first floor plat band. Symmetrical. 2 storeys and attics, 4 bay. 12-pane sashes under flat, gauged, brick arches. Central bay probably contained a doorway originally. French doors to south wall. 3 hipped dormers with wrought-iron casements with leaded-lights. Panelled doorway with moulded architrave and transom light in re-entrant angle.
Internal features (RCHM): original oak-staircase with square newel posts, restored ball finials, turned pendants, moulded close strings, turned balusters and moulded handrails; round-headed landing archways with panelled pilasters, moulded archivolts and pulvinated entablatures. (RCHM, Dorset, vol V, p.20, no.3.)
Listing NGR: ST9992710726
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 107378
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1975), 20
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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