Listed Building record MDO11517 - Allendale House, 8 East Borough, Wimborne Minster

Grecian style house built in 1823, by Sir Jeffry Wyattville with rendered walls, and a low-pitched slate roof with wide bracketed eaves. On main elevation, door has portico with Doric columns, with entablature.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 90 (Monograph). SDO129.

‘(49) 'ALLENDALE', house, now the Civic Centre, is of three storeys with attics and cellars, and has rendered walls and slate-covered roofs (Plate 72). It was built in 1823 to the design of Sir Jeffry Wyatville (Colvin, 739) and has a class-U plan with extensive single-storeyed stable ranges on the S. The symmetrical W. front, of three bays, has a central doorway in a tetrastyle Doric portico flanked by three-light sashed windows; the upper storey has plain sashed windows. The low-pitched roof has wide soffited eaves with shaped brackets, continuous on all sides of the house. The N. elevation is of six bays, but in the upper storeys the terminal bays have no windows. The E. elevation is similar to that on the W., but with a smaller porch. The S. elevation is irregular and the lower storey is masked by a single-storeyed service wing flanking the stable court. Inside, the principal rooms retain some original plasterwork and marble chimneypieces.’

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213257 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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