Listed Building: GUSSAGE HOUSE (107378)

GUSSAGE ALL SAINTS ST 91 SE VILLAGE STREET (South-west side) 5/41 Gussage House 18.3.55 II Rectory, now private house, late C17 with C18 and C19 alterations. For Col. Joshua Churchill. Brick with some mathematical tiles. Hipped, tiled roof with brick stack left of centre. Stucco quoins, moulded wooden cornice and first floor plat band. Symmetrical. 2 storeys and attics, 4 bay. 12-pane sashes under flat, gauged, brick arches. Central bay probably contained a doorway originally. French doors to south wall. 3 hipped dormers with wrought-iron casements with leaded-lights. Panelled doorway with moulded architrave and transom light in re-entrant angle. Internal features (RCHM): original oak-staircase with square newel posts, restored ball finials, turned pendants, moulded close strings, turned balusters and moulded handrails; round-headed landing archways with panelled pilasters, moulded archivolts and pulvinated entablatures. (RCHM, Dorset, vol V, p.20, no.3.) Listing NGR: ST9992710726

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Nov 5 2007 3:32AM