Listed Building record MDO13987 - Stourpaine House, Stourpaine

A country house with wings built in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The earlier western wing contains original features such as ceiling beams and a staircase, remodelled in the nineteenth century. The building has rendered walls and the roof is covered in tiles and slates. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

Stourpaine House (86030856) is of two storeys and has rendered walls and pantileD and slated roofs. The house is of two periods; the main range, on the east is of the early 19th century and has a symmetrical eastern elevation of five bays with sashed windows. A lower wing on the west probably dates from the late 18th century; it has a square-headed front doorway with a reeded architrave. A covered way with a coved lead roof, supported on small columns with moulded caps, connects the front doorway with a doorway in the garden wall. <2-3>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey map 1:10,560, 1969 (Map). SDO18658.

(ST 86030956) Stourpaine House

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 261 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(3) STOURPAINE HOUSE (86030956), 200 yds. N. of the church, is of two storeys and has rendered walls and pantiled and slated roofs. The house is of two periods; the main range, on the E., is of the early 19th century and has a symmetrical E. elevation of five bays with sashed windows. A lower wing on the W. probably dates from the late 18th century; it has a square-headed front doorway with a reeded architrave. A covered way with a coved lead roof, supported on small columns with moulded caps, connects the front doorway with a doorway in the garden wall. Inside, the 18th-century part of the house has ceiling-beams with beaded edges. The stairs, with a moulded mahogany handrail and plain uprights, are of 18th-century origin but were remodelled in the 19th century.’

<3> DOE (HHR), 1954, List of Buildings of Special Historic or Architectural Interest: Blandford Rural District, 15 (Scheduling record). SDO17701.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205470 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 23 2024 3:06PM