Listed Building: WEST END HOUSE. HORSECASTLES HOUSE. INCLUDING RAILINGS AND GATE BEFORE FRONT OF HOUSE AND RAILINGS TO REAR (103840)

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Grade II
Authority Historic England
Volume/Map/Item 689/1/18
Date assigned 04 October 1973
Date last amended

Description

ACREMAN STREET 1. 1625 (South West Side) West End House. Horsecastles House. Including railings and gate before front of house and railings to rear ST 6316 1/18 II GV 2. Formerly shown as Horsecastles Farm. Stone house of various dates, part of it probably C18 or earlier. 2 storeys front to road has been much altered and has cement-rendering in panel treatment. From right to left hand two 2-light casement windows above and a 3-light sash window below; to left hand again, a 2-light casement above and a sash window below; to left hand again, 2-light casement above round-headed doorway; 6-flush panelled door with top 2 panels glazed, blank tympanum. Blank bay at South end. South gable end is of ashlar arch has windows with moulded stone frames and keystones, that to second floor being round-headed. Front railings have uprights with spiked finials; square standards at intervals with urn finials; front gate has uprights rising to two different heights. Railings enclosing rear of house have uprights looped at the top in pairs; railings extend from north-west corner of house to north corner of south range. West End House, Horsecastles House, railings and gate to front, rear, wall to south of Horsecastles House, and outbuilding to North-West of Horsecastles House from a group. Listing NGR: ST6344616776

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Location

Grid reference ST 6344 1677 (point)
Civil Parish Sherborne; Dorset
District (historic) West Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

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