Listed Building record MDO26467 - Charminster House, Charminster

Detached house in grounds. Early C18 with extensive remodelling in mid C19. Brick walls rendered and rendered parapet with string. Slate roof with stone gable copings.

Charminster House, a brick-walled building of two storeys with attics was built early in the 18th century but extensive remodelling in the 19th century and alterations in more recent times have left little evidence of original work. The symmetrical south front appears to date from the first half of the 19th century. <2>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 67989265) Charminster House (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 70 (Monograph). SDO146.

‘(7) CHARMINSTER HOUSE, 50 yds. S.E. of (1), is of two storeys with attics. The brick walls are rendered and the roofs are slate covered. It was built early in the 18th century but extensive remodelling in the 19th century and alterations in more recent times have left little evidence of original work. The symmetrical S. front appears to date from the first half of the 19th century. The chimneystacks are of brick with segment-headed panels on each face, and heavy cappings; the E. stack includes a specially modelled brick with the date 1706. Inside, the responds of an archway between the entrance-hall and the stair-hall are cased with early 16th-century wooden panels, of French or N. Italian origin, carved in low relief with figures of saints in flat niches with shell-heads and side-standards. The circular staircase, of the late 18th or early 19th century, has turned balusters and newels and a moulded handrail. The Drawing Room on the first floor has a late 18th-century moulded plaster ceiling.’

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453494 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Feb 20 2023 3:10PM