Listed Building record MDO19258 - Wollaston House, Durngate Street, Dorchester

A house built in 1786, later adapted for use as a school, and now offices. Called Agriculture House. An inscription on the front reads "Girls School" with the gable inscribed "1850-1910". It then became the Thomas Hardye's School lower school. The building is of rendered brick with a hipped slate roof.

Wollaston House, a two-storeyed red-brick building with attics and cellars, built in 1786 according to the foundation stone in the cellar. The symmetrical main front has a central porch with Ionic columns and pilasters supporting an entablature. The house was altered and adapted as a school. Now offices. <1>

Boulton, D, The History of Wollaston House (Monograph). SDO21327.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 118 (Monograph). SDO148.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1 to 25 inch scale map, 1971 (Map). SDO18020.

(SY 69389063) Wollaston House (Hardye's School) (NAT)

<3> Historic England, Historic England Archive, BF097264 (Index). SDO14738.

HARDYES GRAMMAR SCHOOL, DORCHESTER

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453536 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 19 2025 12:30PM