Listed Building record MDO12792 - Layton House, 23 Layton Lane, Shaftesbury

Two storey house with cellars. Squared rubble walls and tiled roofs. The house was built c1800 but enlarged and much altered in the second half of the nineteenth century. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

(ST 8633 2278) Layton House [NAT]. <1>

Layton House. Circa 1800. Two-storeyed with cellar, has squared rubble walls and tiled roofs. Much altered in the second half of the C19th. Grade II. <2-3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1965 (Map). SWX1197.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 72 (Monograph). SDO99.

(91) Layton House, of two storeys with cellars, has squared rubble walls and tiled roofs. The house was built c. 1800 and was enlarged and much altered in the second half of the 19th century; the plan of the original building probably was of class T. The S. front of the main block was symmetrical and of three bays, with large sashed windows on the ground floor and with slightly smaller windows above; several of these openings have since been modified. A service wing extends to the E., its S. front set back from that of the main range. A late 19th-century range stands on the N. of the original building and masks the original N. front.

<3> DOE (HHR), 1973, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: North Dorset District, 48-9 (Scheduling record). SDO18623.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 913746 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Dec 22 2022 9:03AM