Listed Building record MDO12529 - Granville House, 25 West Street, Bridport

Pevsner makes mention of the “mid-C18 doorway, with a Gibbs surround” to Granville House. <2>

The building was converted into a Post Office (probably in the 1940s) and the interior was gutted.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 51 (Monograph). SDO97.

'Granville House, […] is of two storeys with attics. The walls are of brick in header bond with ashlar dressings and the roofs are slate covered. It was built about the middle of the 18th century; the entrance porch and doorway were remodelled in the 19th century. The S. front is symmetrical, with rusticated stone quoins; the doorway in the middle has a shallow porch with free-standing Doric columns; the central window on the first floor has a rusticated moulded stone architrave, the other windows are plain with flat gauged-brick arches and all have key-stones. There is a bracket-cornice and panelled parapet-wall pierced for balustrading in the centre. Inside, the fixtures and fittings mostly date from the 19th century.'

<2> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 112 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 867966 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 21 2022 6:07PM