Monument record MDO43493 - Gardens and outbuildings, Bryanston

Earthworks on land which slopes gently east to the River Stour have been interpreted as the remains of gardens and outbuildings associated with a country house demolished in 1778.

Earthwork Remains 875073, of gardens and outbuildings of the house which preceded that of 1778 lie (ST 80 NE 40) on land which slopes gently E. to the R. Stour. Low banks and scarps, much obscured by later work, and rectangular platforms, appear to represent the northern third of the gardens and outbuildings of the house they were abandoned c. 1778. <1>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 47 (Monograph). SDO146.

'(2) Bryanston House. Reference has been made in the parish introduction to the history of the site. The house demolished in 1778 is known from J. Kip's engraving (Britannia Illustrata, 1714, pl. 77) and from a perspective view included in Bastard's plan of Blandford Forum (Plate 104). … Earthwork Remains (875073) of gardens and outbuildings of the house which preceded that of 1778 lie N.E. of (1) on land which slopes gently E. to the R. Stour. Low banks and scarps, much obscured by later work, and rectangular platforms, appear to represent the northern third of the gardens and outbuildings of the house depicted by J. Kip (loc. cit.); presumably they were abandoned c. 1778.'

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 205474 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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