Fontmell Parva House
FONTMELL PARVA HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1324593
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Fontmell Parva House
- Statutory Address:
- FONTMELL PARVA HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1324593
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Fontmell Parva House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FONTMELL PARVA HOUSE
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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:
- FONTMELL PARVA HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Child Okeford
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 82690 14550
Details
ST 81 SW CHILD OKEFORD FONTMELL PARVA
3/7 Fontmell Parva House 12-10-78 GV II*
House c.1665 with wings of c.1864. Original house probably for Edward St Loe of Knighton, C19 work for the Bower family by George Evans of Wimborne. Brick, English Bond with ashlar dressings. Hipped roof, main range stone-slated and wings tiled. Main stack central, of brick with blind arcading. Subsidary stacks to later ranges. Coved cornice. C19 carved, gabled dormers. C19 wings have stone plat band. Symmetrical. 2 storeys with semi-basements and attics. 7 window range (5 to original house). Ashlar mullioned windows with moulded architraves and keystones. Central doorway approached up a flight of stairs flanked by parapets with ball finials. Doorway has architrave, pulvinated frieze and broken pediment. Open C19 gables to end and central bays. Bulls-eye windows to sides of porches.
Internally the plan is of two main rooms either side of a central stack (in the original range). Main rooms have fielded panelling with panels of Honduras Mahogany. Entrance lobby has shell-headed niche. Bedrooms have C17 oak panelling. (RCHM, Dorset, vol. III, p.80, no. 2. Newman, J and Pevsner, N., The Buildings of England: Dorset. 1972, p.154/5.)
Listing NGR: ST8269014550
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 103094
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 80
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 154-155
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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