Listed Building record MDO12951 - Royal Chase Hotel (formerly Belmont House), Salisbury Road, Shaftesbury

(ST 8714 2261) Royal Hotel [NAT]. <1>

Belmont House, now a hotel, is of the late C18th/early C19th. <2>

Royal Chase Hotel. Late C18 to early C19. 2 storeys and attic. 3 bays. Centre bay projects slightly forward with triangular pediment and with segmental headed dormer in tympanum; tall segmental headed window in 1st floor. Stuccoed front. Moulded eaves cornice and parapet. Band. Other 1st floor windows 3 panes wide in reveals, On ground floor, 2 late Cl9 3-sided canted bays. Later C19 glazed prostyle porch with glazed door with side lights; entablature and semi-circular fanlight over. Listed Grade II. <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), 74 (Monograph). SDO99.

(123) Belmont House (87142261), now an hotel, is of two storeys with attics and has ashlar walls and slated roofs; it dates from the late 18th or early 19th century. The S. front is symmetrical and of three bays, with a first-floor plat-band and a moulded cornice. The middle bay projects slightly and continues in the attic storey, being capped with a low gable. The central doorway has a round head, jambs with composite capitals, pilasters and free-standing columns with similar capitals, and a barrel-vaulted porch. The side bays of the lower storey have late 19th-century three-sided bow windows. In the second storey the side bays have plain sashed windows and the middle bay has a large segmental-headed window. The E. and W. elevations have each three bays of plain sashed windows. The building was extended to the N. late in the 19th century and the interior has been entirely remodelled.

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

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 913599 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jun 27 2023 2:57PM