Listed Building record MDO16878 - Encombe House, Corfe Castle

Encombe is a fine 18th century house with traces of the Vanbrugh-Hawksmoor style and of Palladianism, built throughout in the finest Purbeck ashlar. <3>

The property was bought by the Pitt family in 1734, and the house as it is now was completed by about 1770. The Stables and Garden Temple to the south-west are early 19th century but follow closely the 18th century style.

As previously described. <4>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 94457857) Encombe House (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 78-81 (Monograph). SDO148.

<3> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 200-201 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 28-APR-86 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 456589 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Oct 11 2023 1:53PM