Listed Building record MDO11551 - Sun Blessed Travel, High Street, Wimborne Minster

(SU 00970001) Three adjacent houses and shops are of two storeys with attics and have brick walls and tiled roofs. The three tenements were formerly one, called the New Inn, it had a west front of seven bays probably of about 1700. The south tenement is now the Albion Hotel. In the west front the lower storey is modern, but the through carriage-way of the hotel in the third bay from the south doubtless repeats an original feature. The upper storey retains seven tall sashed windows and a continuous moulded eaves cornice. Inside, some first floor rooms have 18th century panelling and a room at the north end of the range has a niche with shaped shelves and a niche-head with elaborate plaster-work. Oak staircases in the north house and in the hotel on the south have closed strings, stout turned balusters and square handrails of about 1700. <1>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 89 (Monograph). SDO129.

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

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Aug 14 2023 4:57PM