Listed Building record MDO14557 - Flamberts, Trent

Sixteenth century house extended in 1658 to south by Anthony Gundry (datestone on S.E. wing with A.G. 1658). The building has walls of rubble and tiled roofs.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 259 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(9) Flamberts (Plate 206), house 780 yards E. of the church, is of two storeys; the walls are of rubble and the roofs are tiled. The N. part of the house with the N.E. wing was built probably at two periods in the 16th century; the S. part of the house with the S.E. wing were added in the 17th century. The doorway on the E. front has moulded jambs and four-centred arch in a square head with a label; the windows here and elsewhere are of one to four lights, mostly with labels; those to the N. of the doorway are larger and set higher than those to the S. On the S.E. wing is a stone with the initials and date A.G. (perhaps for Gundry) 1658. A doorway with a four-centred head, on the W. front, has been brought from elsewhere. Inside the building, the Drawing Room has a late 16th-century ceiling divided by moulded and plastered beams into six bays; each bay has ribs forming a geometrical design with foliage-sprays and centre-pieces; there is some 17th-century panelling reset. The room in the N.E. wing has a plaster ceiling of about the same date; it has a lozenge-design of ribs with floral and foliage sprays at the angles; the plaster frieze has a continuous deisign of conventional flowers and a length with vine-scroll; here also there is a little 17th-century panelling. At the S. end of the Dining Room is a late 17th-century container or rack for bacon; the wide fireplace has been opened out. The adjoining passage has a dado of 17th-century panelling. On the first floor are two fireplaces with four-centred heads and above one of them is a plaster panel with conventional enrichment.'

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