LONGBURTON HOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1324001
Date first listed:: 11-Jul-1951
List Entry Name:: LONGBURTON HOUSE
Statutory Address:: LONGBURTON HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1324001
Date first listed:: 11-Jul-1951
List Entry Name:: LONGBURTON HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: LONGBURTON HOUSE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: LONGBURTON HOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Longburton
National Grid Reference:: ST 64681 13556

Details

LONGBURTON ST 61 SW LONGBURTON VILLAGE

2/97 Longburton House 11.7.51

- II

House in grounds. 1908-9 by M H Baillie Scott for Mr Edward Bartlett, incorporating a considerable quantity of old materials from demolished buildings in the locality. Stonework from Yetminster, Stoke-sub-Hamdon, Martock, Tintinhull. Coursed rubble-stone walls with ashlar quoins. Stone slate roof with stonegable-copings to main ridges and dormers, with moulded kneelers. Stone stacks, on back wall of south range, west of entrance porch with projecting embrasure; at centre of south ridge, and on north ridge (original kitchen). Wodden bellcote on roof over entrance hall. L-plan house, with reception rooms in south range, and originally extensive services in the north range. Front entrance in the angle. South elevation: 1½ storeys. 4 windows and a south porch left of centre. Windows have hollow-chamfered stone mullions with metal casements and lead lights, from left to right: 4-light, converted to French window, 7-light, with transom and cill-lowering a later alteration, 5-light. 2 gabled dormers over each of 3 lights, at east end. Gabled south porch, of 2 storeys, has an entrance with moulded jambs and depressed-arch head. Plank-and-muntin door. Sundial over entrance, dated I.G.E. 1700 came from Pennard Hill. The east elevation of 5 windows has irregular gabling. 5 windows, mullioned. Entrance porch in the angle, one storey with a square parapet, entrance with a depressed-arch head. Plank door. West side of service range, has a small staircase tower at centre left, and a projecting dairy (originally) at north-west corner. Interior: Drawing room has full complement of C17 squared moulded panelling from Old Court Farm, Batcombe. Open fireplace with straight- chamfered jambs and lintel. Breakfast-room has ceiling-beams in 12 compartments and a cored-and-timbered cornice at north end of room, coring by Baillie Scott. Hall has C16 linenfold panelling. Staircase, C20, in Queen Anne style. (RCHM. Dorset I, p.62(2). J Komwolf, M H Baillie Scott and the Arts and Crafts Movement. p.410-415.)

Listing NGR: ST6468113556

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 106115
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1952), 62(2)
Kornwolf, J, MH Baillie Scott and the Arts and Crafts Movement, (1972), 410-415

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.