Listed Building record MDO10678 - Hitts House, 14 Whitcombe Road, Beaminster

Late 17th and 19th century detached house, of two storeys and attics, with coursed stone walls and tiled roof. Some 17th century internal details survive.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 24 (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. … (9) Hitts House, 400 yards E.S.E. of the church, retains, on the N.E. front, five original stone-mullioned windows; the doorway has a four-centred head and is surmounted by an early 18th-century shell-hood on console brackets. Inside the building the N.W. wall has an original fireplace with moulded jambs and four-centred head and next to it is a semi-circular stone staircase. The garden has 18th-century gate-piers with ball-terminals and a trough with a nozzle discharging from a lead-panel dated 1761.’

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1979 (Map). SWX1197.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 883616 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Nov 2 2022 4:33PM