Listed Building record MDO14949 - Abbeylands, 48 Cheap Street, Sherborne

Abbeylands : A house built probbly late in the 16th. Cent. With an addition of 1649 on the S.W. The three gables have exposed timber framing, and there are some original oak framed windows and restored stone mullioned windows in the house. <2>

The building is still called Abbeylands ; part of it is old, but there are large modern extensions which form a House of Sherborne School. <3>

ST 63831667 The late 16th. Cent. Building has an E. frontage on Cheap Street, and has a lower storey of stone, with jettied timber construction above. The S.W. part of the house is of stone, and a doorway at the S.E. corner incorporates the date "1649". The building is in good condition with minor modern additions and alterations. The roof is of stone slates. <5>

The adjoining modern houses, to the W.S.W. of the 16-17th cent. One, are also called Abbeylands, and are intercommunicating. The Abbeylands. <4> <5>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, 1928 (Map). SDO10373.

[Name cent. ST 63781667] Abbey Lands (1647) [TI]

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 215 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(19) Abbeylands, house 5 yards N. of Abbey Road, was built probably late in the 16th century and has an addition of 1649 on the S.W. The E. front has a projecting upper storey and three gables all with exposed timber-framing; the first floor has three bay-windows of oak with curved supports, moulded sills and heads and chamfered mullions and transoms; the gablewindows have moulded oak frames. The gabled S. return of the main block has partly restored stonemullioned windows; adjoining it is a gabled porchwing; the entrance has a half-round head with imposts, key-block and square label with the date 1649 in the spandrels; the first floor has a two-light window in the E. and S. walls. The W. wall of the 17th-century wing has two semi-circular recesses with shell-heads. Inside this wing is a staircase with turned balusters and turned newels with acorn-terminals.'

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 18-JUL-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3.1> Woods, F, 1955, Oral information, correspondence (not archived) or staff comments: Mr F Woods, House-Porter, Abbeylands (Verbal communication). SDO18007.

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

<5> English Heritage, 2006, Listed buildings data disk (Digital archive). SDO12545.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 199452 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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