Listed Building record MDO12705 - Castle Hill House ( Residential Home), Bimport, Shaftesbury

Dating to the 18th century, it is a two storey house with attics and cellars; has walls of coursed rubble, and tiled roofs. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

'(76). CASTLE HILL HOUSE, of two storeys with attics and cellars, has walls of coursed rubble, and tiled roofs (Plate 28); it dates from the end of the 18th century. The E. front is symmetrical and of three bays; at the centre of the ground floor is a square-headed doorway with a segmental hood enriched with dentils, and scrolled brackets; on each side are Palladian windows with tuscan pilasters, dentil cornices and moulded archivolts and keystone; above is a moulded cornice and a plain parapet. Inside, the house has been extensively altered for conversion to a hospital, but a plain 18th-century staircase with a moulded mahogany handrail survives. The plan is of class U.

Barker, P P, 2000, Castle Hill House, Shaftesbury, Dorset (Unpublished document). SDO11527.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 70 (Monograph). SDO99.

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Dec 21 2018 2:43PM