Listed Building record MDO10512 - Barton End, 50 Fleet Street, Beaminster

A house built in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century. The front range was built around 1730, and this part of the building has walls of brick with burnt headers, set on a stone plinth with rusticated stone quoins, a moulded stone cornice and parapet. The roof is tiled with stone gable copings. The earlier rear wing has rubble-stone walls and a tiled roof with stone gable copings. Notable features of the exterior include the front door and surround. Surviving features of the interior are reported to include extensive flagstone floors, fireplaces, and stair case.

Barton End single house, C17th early C18th. Grade II*. (1-2)

Barton End mentioned. (3)

(St 48130156 - Barton End sited from auth. 1 and OS 2500 1963). (4)

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 26 (Monograph). SDO97.

'The following monuments, unless otherwise described, are of the 17th century and of two storeys; the walls are of rubble and the roofs are thatched or covered with modern materials. Some of the buildings have exposed ceiling-beams and original fireplaces. ... (43) Barton End, house on the E. side of Fleet Street 80 yards N. of (42), was shortened towards the W. to make way for the existing 18th century front block. The old block retains a number of original stone-mullioned windows with labels and a two-storeyed porch; the outer archway has chamfered jambs and a flat arched head with a label. Inside the building are some old battened doors with ornamental strap-hinges. The front block of c. 1730-40 is symmetrically designed and has a brick front with a parapet and dormers. The windows have architraves and key-blocks, and the doorway has a bracketed pediment.'

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1963 (Map). SWX1197.

St 48130156 - Barton End sited from auth. 1 and OS 2500 1963

<3> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 86-7 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<4> Department of the Environment, 1983, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: District of West Dorset, 14 (Scheduling record). SDO16336.

<5> Fitzgerald, R J, RCHME Fieldworker's Comments RJF (Unpublished document). SWX2638.

Fitzgerald R J 03-Jun-1991 RCHME Recording

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 883425 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Nov 23 2023 10:04AM