Charminster House
CHARMINSTER HOUSE, EAST HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324000
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Charminster House
- Statutory Address:
- CHARMINSTER HOUSE, EAST HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324000
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Charminster House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHARMINSTER HOUSE, EAST HILL
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:
- CHARMINSTER HOUSE, EAST HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Charminster
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 67976 92656
Details
CHARMINSTER SY 6792 EAST HILL (South Side)
13/18 Charminster House 26.1.56
GV II
Detached house in grounds. Early C18 with extensive remodelling in mid C19. Brick walls rendered and rendered parapet with string. Slate roof with stone gable copings. Brick stacks with blind arcading, vitrified headers and moulded dogtooth cornices, east stack includes a specially modelled brick, dated 1706. 2½ storeys. 5 windows to main house, 3 windows to easterly block. Projecting central bay to main house. Ground floor has 2-light French windows with marginal and horizontal glazing bars. First floor, left, segmental bay window of 6 main lights, with marginal and horizontal glazing bars. Remainder are 2-light casements with marginal glazing bars and segmental heads, window shutters, C19. Three small attic windows, sashes with glazing bars. Front door at centre with moulded architrave, door has 2 recess panels with 2 top lights in a round arched recess. Verandah of cast-iron pillars and pentice glazed roof over, C19. Easterly block, of knapped flint and stone banding with a half hipped slate roof, the windows have brick dressings and segmental arches with burnt headers. 3-light casements with glazing bars, wood cills. Rear of this range, onto street, has C18 sashes with glazing bars in flush wooden frames. Main part has a rendered outshut under a pentice slate roof, with 3 C20 casements with labels. Entrance at right hand, panelled door under a segmental arch. Interior: the responds of archway between entrance hall and stair hall are cased with early C19 wooden panels carved in low relief with figures of saints in flat niches with shell heads and side standards. Circular staircase, late Cl8 has turned balusters and newels and moulded handrail. Drawing room on the first floor has a late C18 moulded plaster ceiling. (RCHM Dorset III p70(7)
Listing NGR: SY6797692656
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 106206
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 70
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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