Listed Building record MDO17894 - Post Green House, Post Green, Lytchett Minster

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Summary

A country house built in the middle to late 18th century and became the service range of an enlarged house in the early 19th century. The building has brick walls and a hipped slate roof with a parapet on the south front and brick chimney stacks. An ornamental iron verandah was added on the south in the late 19th century. The older service range to the west has brick walls and a slate roof. Inside, the house has an octagonal dining room with carved marble fireplace surround, ornamental cornices and painted ceiling. The earlier building is reputed to have been a post house inn.

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Full Description

SY958935. Port Green Hose. Original house, now service range. Mid to late C18th enlarged to form a double pile house early C19th. <1>


<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 158-159 (Monograph). SDO148.

'(3) POST GREEN, house (968935), of two and three storeys with cellars, has brick walls and slate-covered roofs; it was built in the the third quarter of the 18th century and enlarged towards the S. at the end of the same century.

The N. front is symmetrical; the central doorway has a modern architrave and fanlight flanked by original fluted columns with reeded and fluted capitals carrying an entablature, which has been altered and heightened, and an original pediment reset; the windows are plain with double-hung sashes. The S. elevation is symmetrical and built in header bond with two large two-storey bay windows flanking a modern opening with french casements and fixed side lights; the lower windows to the bays have french casements, and across the whole front is an early 19th-century verandah with curved roof carried on cast-iron trellised standards and transoms. At the W. end is a lower wing which has been heightened and much altered.

Internally a central spine wall is the original S. outside wall. The older part of the house, to the N., has been modernised; to the S. is a central stairhall between drawing room and dining room. The drawing-room is octagonal and has a covered ceiling with a border enriched with garlands; the fireplace is flanked by Ionic pilasters, panelled and decorated, supporting a frieze under the mantelshelf decorated with lutes, garlands and allegorical figures. The dining room has an encriched ceiling cornice and a fireplace with moulded surround with roundels at the corners. The foregoing are of c. 1800. Parts only of the staircase of c. 1800 survive, with open string, turned newels and plain square balusters.'

<2> English Heritage, 2006, Listed buildings data disk (Digital archive). SDO12545.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 887339 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Sources/Archives (3)

  • <1> Monograph: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England). 1970. An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1. Volume Two (South East) Part I. 158-159.
  • <2> Digital archive: English Heritage. 2006. Listed buildings data disk.
  • <3> Digital archive: National Record of the Historic Environment. 887339.

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Location

Grid reference Centred SY 9580 9351 (47m by 19m)
Map sheet SY99SE
Civil Parish Lytchett Minster; Dorset
Unitary Authority Dorset

Protected Status/Designation

Other Statuses/References

  • Legacy UID: Dorset Sites and Monuments Record: 6 015 003
  • Legacy UID: National Monuments Record: SY 99 SE 18
  • Legacy UID: National Record of the Historic Environment: 887339
  • Royal Commission Inventory Reference: Lytchett Minster 3

Record last edited

Aug 23 2024 11:50AM

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