Listed Building record MDO11644 - 10 West Borough, Wimborne Minster

Wimborne Conservative Club dates to ca 1790. <2>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 90-91 (Monograph). SDO129.

‘(63) THE CONSERVATIVE CLUB, adjacent to the foregoing, is of three storeys with attics and has brick walls with ashlar dressings, and slate-covered roofs; it dates from early in the 19th century. The W. façade is symmetrical and of five bays, with a round-headed central doorway flanked by fluted Roman-Doric three-quarter columns which support Doric entablatures and a low-pitched open-pediment hood; the other bays of the lower storey have round-headed sashed windows set in shallow recesses with gauged brick heads and moulded ashlar imposts. The corresponding windows in the upper storeys are square-headed. A continuous moulded string-course forms the sills of the first-floor windows. The façade is crowned by a moulded cornice, inclined upwards to form a pediment over the three central bays, with a round-headed attic window in the tympanum.
Inside, the plan is of class U. The principal rooms have moulded and enriched plaster cornices. The stone staircase has a moulded wood handrail supported by a wrought-iron balustrade with panels recalling mediaeval window tracery.’

<2> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 467 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213268 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 11 2023 1:00PM