Listed Building record MDO10359 - Minterne House, Minterne Magna

Country House, 1904-6 by Leonard Stokes for Lord Digby. The house, which is on the site of an earlier house built in 1714, has walls of squared, coursed and dressed rubble and ashlar. Ham Hill stone is used throughout, and it has stone slated roofs with stone copings and ashlar chimney stacks.

The manor of Minterne, a possession of Cerne Abbey until the Dissolution, was rebuilt in 1714. <1, 2, 4>

The present Minterne House is entirely modern, with no remains of the 18th century house. Oswald says it was built in 1903-6 "in place of a Victorian house of no merit". <5>

Minterne House was built between 1904-6 by Leonard Stokes, his only large country-house commission. <6>

Minterne Magna House (formerly Minterne House). Grade II*. <7>

<1> Hutchins, J, 1873, The history and antiquities of the County of Dorset. Volume 4. 3rd edition, 469-481 (Monograph). SDO10245.

<2> Ravenhill, Revd H E, 1889, Minterne: Its connection with the Churchills and Digbys; Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field club (Article in serial). SDO17429.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1962 (Map). SWX1540.

Minterne House (NAT)

<4> DOE (HHR), 1976, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Dorchester RD Addendum April 1976 (Scheduling record). SDO17430.

<5> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 1972 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<6> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 20-OCT-76 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<6.1> Oswald, A, 1959, Country Houses of Dorset, 175 (Monograph). SWX2642.

<7> Department of the Environment, 1984, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: District of West Dorset (Parishes of Alton Pancras, Bishops Caundle, Buckland Newton, Caundle Marsh, Folke, Hermitage, Hilfield, Holnest, Holwell, Melcombe Horsey, Minterne Magna etc) (Scheduling record). SDO16359.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 198885 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 2 2021 1:57PM