Listed Building record MDO26767 - Frome House, Frome St Quintin

Detached House in grounds. Dated G Baker AD 1782 on the south porch. Brick walls in header-bond . Fluted stone plat-band with regularly-spaced rosettes. Modillion brick cornice and brick parapet. Slate roofs, hipped, in behind parapets.

(ST 59730265) Frome House [NAT]. (1)

Frome House. A detached house in grounds, dated 'G Baker, 1782' on the South porch, a rare period home in this part of Dorset.

Grade II*. (2-4)

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 118-119 (Monograph). SDO97.

'(2) Frome House (Plate 120), 150 yds W. of the church, is of two storeys and attics; the walls are of brick and the porch is of tooled ashlar; the roofs are slate-covered. On the porch is the name and date, G. Baker AD 1782; reset in the N.E. wing are two 16th-century two-light windows with hollow-chamfered jambs and moulded labels, possibly from an earlier house on the site; there is a modern addition on the N. The W. front of the 18th-century house is symmetrically designed and has a fluted string at first-floor level, a dentil-cornice and parapet. The three-sided porch in the centre is two storeys in height with canted sides; two free-standing columns with pilasters and enriched entablature support a bay-window on the upper floor; the doorway has a semi-circular fanlight and is flanked by round-headed niches, all with moulded architraves. The window-bay has rusticated walls, fluted frieze and cornice; there are moulded architraves round the windows and shaped brackets supporting the sills. The other windows have flat gauged-brick arches and keyblocks.'

<2> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 214 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1977 (Map). SDO17396.

(ST 59730265) Frome House [NAT]

<4> Department of the Environment, 1985, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: District of West Dorset (Parishes of Batcombe, Cattistock, Cerne Abbas, Frome St Quinton, Hooke, Rampisham, Sydling St Nicholas and Wraxall), 52 (Scheduling record). SDO16377.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 882516 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 21 2022 4:59PM