Listed Building: PREMISES OF P D AND C J MOUNT (102440)

ST 7814 STURMINSTER NEWTON MARKET CROSS (EAST SIDE) Premises of P D and C J Mount (formerly listed as Bere Regis Bus Office) 8/152 4.10.60 G.V. II House, now shop, office and flats, c 1500 and extensively altered and added to in C17, C18, C19 and C20. Roughcast, brick and rubble, tiled roofs with some stone slate verges, gabled and half-hipped. There are a number of irregularly positioned brick stacks. The original building was an open hall with an east cross wing. The hall was chambered and a chimney inserted in the Cl7 and a west cross wing added in the C18. Few early features survive externally. At the south end of the east wing are the remains of a large chimney in squared greensand. To the north of the same wing is a chimney of probably C18 origin. The market cross facade is of 2 storeys. The ground floor has double doors under a segmental arch to the left, a 3-light C19 shop front, another door and a fixed 3-light window. Above is a 3-light wooden casement with glazing bars. Internally, both the east wing and the central range have cruck trusses with wind braced purlins, The central range has a ceiling of deep chamfered intersecting beams. The building is listed because of its plan form, remaining early features and its relationship to other buildings rather than for the details of its facade. "RCHM, Dorset, Vol III", HMSO, 1970, p 277, no 7. Listing NGR: ST7866214074

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