Listed Building record MDO12723 - The Ship Inn, Bleke Street, Shaftesbury

Two storey building with attics. The walls are ashlar below tiled roofs. Origiunally seventeenth century with eighteenth- and possibly nineteenth century additions. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

The Ship Inn, (formerly the Ship Hotel). <2>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 68-69 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(51) The Ship Inn, of two storeys with attics, with ashlar walls and tiled roofs, dates from the 17th century. The walls have chamfered plinths; the casement windows are square-headed and of two and three lights with recessed, chamfered surrounds and weathered labels. The chimney-stack on the gabled S.W. wall has weathered offsets. An extension which fills the re-entrant of the L-shaped plan probably is of the 18th century; it has details similar to those described, but the first floor is marked externally by a modillion cornice. An extension on the N.W. is of the late 18th or early 19th century. Inside, the building has been extensively altered, but a 17th-century oak staircase is preserved; it has moulded close strings, a moulded handrail, profiled balusters formed of planks, and square newel-posts with shaped and ball-headed finials.'

<2> DOE (HHR), 1973, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: North Dorset District (Scheduling record). SDO18623.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 913767 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 3 2022 11:12AM