Listed Building record MDO27064 - East House, Sydling St Nicholas

Detached House. Mid-late C18. Red brick walls in Flemish bond, with a plastered plat-band, painted white, brick dentil cornice. Hipped clay-tile roof with stone slate eaves.

(Area SY 631994) East House, built in the mid-late 18th century is situated 210 yards north-east of St Nicholas's Church (SY 69 NW 46), on the west side of the road. The brick-built house is of two storeys with basements and attics and has a square plan and pyramidal roof. The main east front is symmetrically designed; the central doorway has a semicircular fanlight, side pilasters and cornice, and over it is a Venetian window with keystone. The north front has dummy windows and the south is partly concealed by a later addition.<1>

East House (name confirmed from name plate) at SY 63149942 is as described above. <3>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 234 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(8) East House, on the W. side of the road, 210 yards N.E. of the church, is of two storeys with basements and attics; the walls are of brick and the roofs are covered with stone slates. It was built in the second half of the 18th century. The house is square on plan with pyramidal roof and central chimney-stack, there is a flat string at first floor level and a brick dentil eaves-cornice. The main E. front is symmetrically designed; the central doorway has a semicircular fan-light, side pilasters and cornice and over it is a Venetianwindow with keystone; the other windows have flat gauged brick lintels with keystones and are fitted with twin sashes; the basement windows are of 17th-century type with stone mullions. The N. front has dummy windows and the S. is partly concealed by a later addition.’

<2> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 415 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<3> Attrill, N J, Field Investigators Comments NJA, F1 NJA 13-FEB-81 (Unpublished document). SDO14743.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453220 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Mar 25 2024 3:40PM