Listed Building record MDO10293 - Buckshaw House, Buckshaw, Holwell

A house built around the middle of the eighteenth century with nineteenth-century alterations and additions, including the upper floor. The building has walls partly ashlar and part covered in render with rusticated quoins, and a slate roof with brick chimney stacks.

Buckshaw House. Mid C18th, 2-storeyed house, extensively altered in the C19th. The upper floor is a C19th addition. <1> <2>

House built circa 1730. It was originally the size of a small manor house. In 1894 major alterations were made to the house. The house was enlarged through the addition of a storey and two new wings. The south side elevation was also lengthened. <6>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 121 (Monograph). SDO146.

‘(8) BUCKSHAW HOUSE (68731133) is a mid 18th-century building with extensive late 19th-century additions. The walls are rendered and of ashlar; the roofs are slated. Except for the E. front, little of the 18th-century house remains visible. It is two-storied and of seven bays, having a central doorway and two flanking bays in a central pavilion, and other bays arranged symmetrically, two on either side. All the windows are sashed and of equal size, but the window above the doorway is enriched with scrolled cheek-pieces. Rusticated ashlar quoins define the central pavilion and the extremities of the front; a lightly moulded plat-band marks the first floor. Presumably there was originally an eaves cornice above the first-floor windows, but it was destroyed when a pedimented attic storey was added in 1894. The doorway has an ashlar architrave and reeded consoles supporting a segmental pediment. Inside, all details appear to be of the late 19th century.’

<2> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 233 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1980s, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 map, epoch six, 1980 (Map). SDO13933.

(ST 6872 1133) Buckshaw House (NAT)

<4> Historic England, Historic England Archive, BF082893 (Index). SDO14738.

Buckshaw House, Holwell

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 887755 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 542083 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Derived from NRHE record mistakenly located in Sherborne.

Record last edited

Nov 25 2022 2:15PM