Bonslea House
BONSLEA HOUSE, WHITE LANE CLOSE [OFF BATH ROAD]
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387296
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Bonslea House
- Statutory Address:
- BONSLEA HOUSE, WHITE LANE CLOSE [OFF BATH ROAD]
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387296
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Bonslea House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BONSLEA HOUSE, WHITE LANE CLOSE [OFF BATH ROAD]
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:
- BONSLEA HOUSE, WHITE LANE CLOSE [OFF BATH ROAD]
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sturminster Newton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 78450 14482
Details
ST 71 SE
8/10001
STURMINSTER NEWTON
WHITE LANE CLOSE (Off Bath Road)
Bonslea House
II
House. Circa 1900. Stretcher bond red brick with stone dressings. Plain tile hipped roof with coved eaves, and lead flats. Brick axial stacks. PLAN: Principal rooms arranged around a central atrium, with service rooms to north, and colonnade to south garden front. Bedrooms in basement below with windows on the lower west side overlooking the River Stour. Ecclectic Italianate, Queen Anne and Jacobethan styles. EXTERIOR: 1 storey and basement. Asymmetrical east front with large square bay window to right with hipped roof, smaller canted bay window on left and elliptically arched doorway between with brick hoodmould; cross-mullion-transom windows; small timber-frame gable on left [SE] corner. South garden front has stone Tuscan 7-bay colonnade, bowed at centre, with balustrade above and trefoil balustrade between the columns; the ground level is lower on left and below the colonnade there is a rusticated stone arcade and flight of steps to lower garden level. On the left [SW] corner there is a 3-storey circular turret with stone mullion-transom windows with leaded panes and a lead tented roof; smaller roughcast turret for access to roof flat with similar tented roof, and large lantern to atrium. West side is two storeys, asymmetrical, centre recessed slightly and with large timber square oriel with ogee lead roof with deep coved eaves. INTERIOR: The large central atrium has thin cast-iron columns supporting the large glazed lantern with ornate curved iron girders/trusses and yellow stained glass to margin panes. Drawing room on SW corner has neo-Classical plaster ceiling, elaborate wooden fretwork screen and large chimneypiece. Room in SE corner has fretwork screen in bay window. Room on west side has large chimneypiece with oval mirror and flanking cupboards. Bedroom below in SW corner has chimneypiece with shelves and tiled iron grate/stove with hinged doors. Moulded panel doors and architraves, and moulded plaster ceiling cornices.
Listing NGR: ST7845014482
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475242
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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