Listed Building record MDO16005 - Gaunt's House, Hinton Martell

Dated 1809 with two storeys. Walls are of brick and stone dressings with slate roofs. In 1887 the house has been enlarged, refaced and extensively altered. The building was formerly surrounded by a medieval moat and there is a ha-ha on the south and east of the house.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey map 6 inches to 1 mile, 1891 (Map). SDO11924.

(SU 016400438) Gaunt's House on site of (NAT) Gaunt's House (NR)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 30 (Monograph). SDO129.

'(2) Gaunt's House (01640438), of two storeys with brick walls with stone dressings and with slate-covered roofs, dates from 1809; in 1887 it was enlarged, refaced and extensively altered, and little remains visible of the mansion illustrated by Hutchins (III, opp. 244). In the symmetrical five-bay N.W. front the proportions of the windows have been altered and the doorway with an Ionic portico has been removed. The former N.E. front has been masked by late 19th-century additions; the S.E. front alone appears to retain its original form. A Venetian window with a Portland stone surround in the S.W. elevation may be original, but reset. A view of the house c. 1823 appears in J. P. Neale's Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen, Vol. I, No. 53.

Inside, the principal rooms retain early 19th-century doors and window-shutters with moulded and beaded panels; plaster cornices with classical enrichment also survive; the chimneypieces are of 1887.

The house was formerly surrounded by a Moat, probably mediaeval in origin; traces of it survived in 1868 (Hutchins III, 245) and a ha-ha on the S. and E. of the house may incorporate parts of it.'

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213157 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Oct 13 2022 10:38AM