Listed Building record MDO14585 - The Court, Chetnole

A country house built around the middle of the eighteenth century, extended at each end probably in the early nineteenth century. The building has red brick walls and a low-pitched hipped slate roof with dentil cornice. Formerly known as Chetnole House. A striking feature of the exterior is a porch on Tuscan columns.

The Court. Mid -C18th Country House, each end probably extended in early C19th. Grade 2*. Formerly Chetnole House. (2,3)

Chetnole House. Well-proportioned red-brick house of ca 1760 mid five bays, and a porch on Tuscan columns. (4) pev

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1982 (Map). SDO17396.

(ST 6029 0827) The Court (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 92-93 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(2) CHETNOLE HOUSE (Plate 109), 100 yards N.E. of the church, is of two storeys with basement and attics; the walls are of brick in Flemish bond, partly cement-rendered, with some freestone dressings and the roofs are slate-covered. The house was built about 1760 and additions were made to both E. and W. ends later; in all probability the form of the roof was altered early in the 19th century. There are modern bay-windows to the south and east. The main, N., elevation of the original building is of symmetrical design with a door-way in the middle flanked by two plain rectangular windows on either side, and five windows almost square on the first floor; it has a plain stone plinth, a moulded brick string at first floor-level, brick quoins and a dentil-cornice. The doorway and semicircular fanlight have a stone surround consisting of two three-quarter Roman Doric columns with entablature-blocks and pedimental cornice. On the S. front, the doorway has a moulded eared architrave with pulvinated frieze and pediment; the two-light windows have moulded architraves and there is a round-headed single-light window over the doorway. The interior retains several original features: the staircase with turned balusters and moulded rail and a number of doorways with moulded architraves and dentil-cornices. The N.E. room has a fireplace and overmantel flanked by superimposed Roman Doric columns supporting a curved broken pediment, and on either side is a recess framed by free-standing Roman Doric columns with antae, entablature with pulvinated frieze and segmental arch with key-block; there is an enriched modillion-cornice round the room and a plain panelled ceiling. The kitchen contains a fireplace with pedimented over-mantel , and several of the rooms have dentil-cornices.

The Stables, S.W. of the house, are of the same date, with the exception of the roof which has been rebuilt and tiled and a modern addition on the S. The middle bays on the E. and W. are recessed, and on the E. the angles of the building have rusticated brick quoins; the openings have round arches with rusticated brick voussoirs.'

<3> DOE (HRR), 17 Oct 1986, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: District of West Dorset amendment 1986 (Scheduling record). SWX2454.

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

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 887088 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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