Eastbury House Including Attached West Courtyard and Gateway.
EASTBURY HOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED WEST COURTYARD AND GATEWAY.
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1324303
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Eastbury House Including Attached West Courtyard and Gateway.
- Statutory Address:
- EASTBURY HOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED WEST COURTYARD AND GATEWAY.
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1324303
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Eastbury House Including Attached West Courtyard and Gateway.
- Statutory Address 1:
- EASTBURY HOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED WEST COURTYARD AND GATEWAY.
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:
- EASTBURY HOUSE INCLUDING ATTACHED WEST COURTYARD AND GATEWAY.
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tarrant Gunville
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 93230 12707
Details
TARRANT GUNVILLE ST 91 SW EASTBURY
4/40 (5/2) Eastbury House including attached 14.7.55 west courtyard and gateway.
GV I
Service ranges to mansion, now a country house. By John Vanbuzrgh for George Dodington and George Bubb. 1717 to 1738. C19 additions. Greensand ashlar with slate roofs having end ashlar stacks and stone copings. Main facade is now to the south. Symmetrical, 2 and 3 storeys, 9 bays, 3:3:3. Central block forms a 3 storey tower with plain parapet. Ground floor has open loggia of round-headed arches with moulded archivolts, plain imposts and rectangular piers. Behind this are round-headed sash windows with glazing bars and a central panelled door. The outer bays each have 3 bulls-eye windows with ashlar architraves below a plain entablature with a moulded cornice. The central tower has 3-round headed sash windows with ashlar architraves connected at the springing line by a plat band. Above a further plat band are 3 small, segmentally headed sash windows. Below the parapet is a modillioned cornice. The general detailing of the other facades is broadly similar. The courtyard gateway is of Greensand ashlar and is of a single round arch having plain plinths and string courses to the piers. Above is an entablature with corbel table. Buttresses to the sides are coped with stone scrolls. 2 trees of considerable proportions have rooted themselves in the top of the gateway.
Internal features: (RCHM). These are mainly of c.1800 and include a number of chimneypieces, pedimental doorways and a staircase with turned balusters, square newels, a moulded handrail and a dado with fielded panelling. The north range has an original stable staircase with turned balusters, moulded handrails and plain newel-posts.
The original mansion was one of Vanburgh's most important houses and his third largest behind Blenheim and Castle Howard. It was demolished as an untenantable eyesore between c.1775 and 1782 and the materials are to be seen reused in many farmhouses and cottages in the surrounding area. (RCHM, Dorset, vol.IV, 90-93, no.2. Newman, J. and Pevsner, N. The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972, p.192/3.)
Listing NGR: ST9323012707
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103668
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Royal Commission on Historic Monuments; Inventory of Dorset Vol 4, (1972), 90-93
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 192 193
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 12 Dorset,
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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