Listed Building record MDO13910 - Preston House, Iwerne Minster

Seventeenth century farmhouse, with extensive nineteenth century alterations and additions. Main facade of ashlar with remainder of house in flint and rubble with ashlar quoins. Tiled roof with end brick stacks.

(ST 86411396) Preston House (NAT). <1>

PRESTON HOUSE (86411396), of two storeys with an attic, has walls of ashlar and of rubble and a tiled roof. It dates from early in the 17th century, but was considerably altered late in the 19th century. In plan the house was originally L-shaped. The ashlar-faced S. front is symmetrical and of five bays, with a central doorway flanked by Tuscan columns supporting an open pedimental hood, and with uniform casement windows of two lights in both storeys of the lateral bays; above the doorway is a bull's-eye window. A weathered label over each casement window appears to be original, but the openings have been altered and enlarged. The other elevations are of rubble and contain some original casement windows with hollow-chamfered ashlar surrounds and weathered labels. An original doorway, now converted into a window, occurs in the N. wall of a small lean-to projection on the W.; it has a chamfered four-centred head and continuous jambs with moulded stops. <2>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey map 1:10,560, 1962 (Map). SDO18658.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 39 No 6 (Monograph). SDO99.

'(6) PRESTON HOUSE (86411396), of two storeys with an attic, has walls of ashlar and rubble, and a tiled roof. It dates from early in the 17th century, but was considerably altered late in the 19th century. In plan the house was originally L-shaped. The ashlar-faced S. front is symmetrical and of five bays, with a central doorway flanked by tuscan columns supporting an open pedimental hood, and with uniform casement windows of two lights in both storeys of the lateral bays; above the doorway is a bull'-eye window. A weathered label over each casement window appears to be original, but the openings have been altered and enlarged. The other elevations are of rubble and contain some original casement windows with hollow-chamfered aslar surrounds and weathered labels. An original doorway, now converted into a window, occurs in the N. wall of a small lean-to projection on the W.; it has a chamfered four-centred head and continous jambs with moulded stops. Inside, the two ground-floor rooms of the S. range have 18th century fireplace surrounds of carved wood. A first-floor room has an original stone fireplace surround with a moulded four centred head and continous jambs with run-out stops.'

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 206177 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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