Listed Building record MDO11895 - Granby House, 128 East Street, Bridport
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GREENBACK List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Scheduling record). SDO19706.
Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 50 (Monograph). SDO97.
‘(16) House, on the S. side of East Street 500 yards E. of the town-hall, is of two builds, the N. block is of three storeys, the S. of two with attics. The N. has brick walls partly cement-rendered with rusticated stone quoins and roofs covered with stone-slates; in the S., the walls are of rubble and the roofs are slate-covered.
The N. block was built in the 18th century and is now divided into three tenements; it has a dentilcornice and hipped roof, the original windows have key-stones.
The S. block was built in the 16th century and is said to have formed part of the Hospital of St. John the Baptist. It retains of a number of altered original windows and in the S. end is a window of one pointed light in a square head. On the E. side, at the first-floor level, is a projecting three-sided orielwindow on stone corbelling; it has two lights with rounded heads on the face and one on each return. Inside the building, the room at the N. end has original moulded ceiling-beams and plates.’
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Location
Grid reference | Centred SY 47039 92835 (10m by 17m) |
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Map sheet | SY49SE |
Civil Parish | Bridport; Dorset |
Unitary Authority | Dorset |
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Other Statuses/References
- Legacy UID: Dorset Sites and Monuments Record: 1 016 016
- Royal Commission Inventory Reference: Bridport 16
Record last edited
Apr 30 2025 4:18PM