Listed Building record MDO26661 - The Mansion, Evershot

Large attached house. Mid C18, with C17 south wing. Rubble-stone walls with ashlar stone quoins. Moulded stone cornice and brick parapet, with stone coping. Slate roof, hipped.

(ST 57300447 No 31 Fore Street sited from OS 2500 1975)

The Mansion, 31 Fore Street. Mid C18th large attached house with a C17th South wing.

Grade II*. (1-3)

National Record of the Historic Environment, 882524 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 202 (Monograph). SWX1290.

Department of the Environment, 1986, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Dorset (Parishes of Halstock, East Chelborough, West Chelborough, Melbury Osmond, Melbury Sampford,Evershot,Stockwood and Melbury Bubb), 15 (Scheduling record). SDO16428.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 108 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘The following monuments, unless otherwise described, are of the 17th century and of two storeys; the walls are of local rubble and the roofs are covered with thatch, tiles or slates. Some of the buildings have exposed ceiling-beams. …(4) House, on the S. side of the road 40 yards S.E. of the church, was rebuilt about 1725 except for the S. wing. Incorporated in the stables is a panel with the initials and date I. and M. C. (?), 1681.’

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Mar 22 2022 2:14PM