Ashley Chase House
ASHLEY CHASE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324213
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Ashley Chase House
- Statutory Address:
- ASHLEY CHASE HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324213
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Ashley Chase House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASHLEY CHASE HOUSE
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:
- ASHLEY CHASE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Long Bredy and Kingston Russell
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 56344 87545
Details
SY 58 NE LONG BREDY ASHLEY CHASE
3/149 Ashley Chase House
- II
Large House in grounds, (shooting lodge). 1925 by Sir Guy Dawber for Sir David Milne-Watson. Unsquared rubble walls. Hipped slate roofs, with thick clay tiles at eaves. Tall rubble-stone stacks behind left front gabling, at right hand end wall (eaves), at rear wall towards east end. Irregular plan with short wing at left hand front and oblique wing at rear. 2 and 2½ storeys. Entrance front has a total of 6 windows. Ground floor fenestration: 4-, 4-, 4-, door, 3-, and 2-light stone mullion windows with straight chamfers. Metal casements with lead lights in small rectangular panes. Mixture of 2-, 3-, and 4-light versions for remainder. Gables (Cotswold style), two to left front, one at centre over door bays. Doorway with pointed-arch entrance with slight straight-chamfered jambs in roughly dressed stone. Door, plank with studded muntins and transoms. Coat of arms carved over front door with motto "Des et Patriae omnia debeo". Rear elevation, irregular fenestration to oblique wing and rear of main house. Canted bay in the angle, containing stair-well, and smaller canted bay right of this. Windows of from 2 to 6-light (right hand) stone mullions. Canted bay has a large ogee cap over. Door in the side of the main canted bay with hollow-chamfered and filleted jambs, and segmental head. Shield on keystone with 1925 and Milne-Watson monogram. Oak door, plank and muntin, with segmental head. Interior not inspected. (J. Newman and N. Pevsner, Dorset, p. 78)
Listing NGR: SY5634487545
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105269
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 78
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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