Listed Building record MDO4187 - Stables at Langton House, Langton Long Blandford

Stables dating to 1832, comprising an octagonal courtyard surrounded by two storey ranges with walls of finely jointed ashlar and slate-covered roofs. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

ST 90240562. Langton House, built in 1827-33 to the design of C.R.Cockerell, was demolished in 1949. The porch is now at Langton Farm, (ST 89590585).

The stables with walls of ashlar and slate covered roofs stand some 70 yards north of the house site, at ST 90250562. Built in 1832, they comprise an octagonal courtyard, surrounded by two storeyed ranges. The former coach house, in the west corner, is now a dwelling. The kitchen wing, (ST 90260556), and brew house, (ST 90320551), built around 1830, are two storeyed and have walls of ashlar and slate covered roofs. Outbuildings and stables. <2>

<1> Shipp, W, and Hodson, J W (eds), 1861, The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. 3rd edition. Volume 1, 284 (Monograph). SWX4496.

Additional bibliography.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1972, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume IV (North), 44 (Monograph). SDO99.

'Langton House (90240562), built in 1827-33 to the design of C. R. Cockerell in place of an 18th-century house, was demolished in 1949. An engraving of the 18th-century house (Hutchins I, opp. 284) shows a two-storeyed main range with six regularly spaced bays, flanked by projecting two-bay wings, also two-storeyed, but lower than the main range. Between the two central bays fo the six-bay front the engraving shows a doorway and a columned porch with a Doric pediment ; this porch is now at Langton Farm (8)…(2) Stables (90250562) of Langton House, with walls of finely jointed ashlar and with slate-covered roofs (Plate 47), stand some 70 yds. No of the site of the former house (see above) ; they were built in 1832 and comprise an octagonal courtyard surrounded by two-storey ranges. Within the courtyard the ranges have eaves of esceptionally wide spread ; externally the N.W. range extends to fill the N. and W. corners of the otherwise octagonal plan. The former coach-house, in the W. corner has recently been remodelled to make a dwelling-house. The courtyard is entered at the centre of the S.E. and N.W. ranges through round-headed archways surmounted by plain pediments. Over the N.W. pediment is a clock turret with a cupola and a weathervane, the latter with the date 1832.'

<3> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset (Monograph). SWX1290.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209450 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 11 2023 4:44PM