Listed Building record MDO20398 - 3 The Square, Beaminster

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West) (Monograph). SDO97.

‘The following monuments, unless otherwise described, are of the 17th century and of two storeys; the walls are of rubble and the roofs are thatched or covered with modern materials. Some of the buildings have exposed ceiling-beams and original fireplaces. … (25) House, on W. side of the Market Place 10 yards S. of Hogshill Street, with ashlar walls, was built in the 18th century. The E. front has a chamfered plinth and an eaves-cornice of one dentilled member; there is a central bay-window two storeys high with cornices over the windows on each floor, and to the N. of it an entrance doorway with panelled reveals between Roman Doric half-columns with full entablature breaking forward over each column. The N. and S. ends are gabled with flat copings; on the W. is a wing almost the width of the frontage.’

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