Listed Building record MDO13662 - Vine House, Penny Street, Sturminster Newton

House with seventeenth century range to north with wing of about 1700 to rear and eighteenth century addition to the south. Built of ashlar and rubble with a tiled roof with stone slate verges, gabled to left and half-hipped to right. Stone stacks to ends of original range and rear of eighteenth century addition. Nineteenth century wooden lattice porch with round hood. Insurance plaque over. The Dorset poet, William Barnes, worked as a solicitor's clerk here for 3 years.

Vine House. 17th century range, North wing added ca.1700 and South range extended East in the second half of the 18th century. Grade II. <2-4>

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1984 (Map). SWX1197.

(ST78811405) Vine House

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 280 (Monograph). SDO136.

<3> DOE (HRR), 1984, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: District of North Dorset, 57 (Scheduling record). SDO17668.

Oct-1983

<4> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 407 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 888655 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 23 2024 3:15PM