Listed Building record MDO47068 - High Hall, Pamphill

<1> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 311 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1:10,000 scale map, 1974 (Map). SDO17396.

(SU 00070280) High Hall (NAT)

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 48 (Monograph). SDO129.

'(7) High Hall (00070280), of two main storeys with service basement and attics, has rendered brick walls with ashlar dressings, and tiled roofs with stone-slate verges. The central block, of 17th-century origin, was somewhat altered in the second half of the 18th century. Additions on the W. and E. are of 1885 and 1909.

The S. front of the central block, now the garden front, but originally with the main entrance, is symmetrical and of five bays (Plate 29). The corners of the façade have quoins, and stone plat-bands occur just above the level of the window sills. The square-headed doorway has a moulded and eared stone architrave under a pediment supported by scrolled consoles; the sashed windows of the lower main storey are round-headed with blind lunettes (cf. (5)) and have moulded architraves; those of the upper main storey are square-headed. The eaves have moulded cornices. In the N. elevation, a wooden architrave suggests that the central opening in the lower storey was formerly a doorway. The quoins are of rendered brickwork.

Inside, the dining-room has mid 18th-century panelling with bolection-moulded panels in two heights. The fireplace surround has cheek-pieces with foliate scroll-work, a pulvinated oak-leaf frieze and an overmantel with a painting in a carved frame flanked by carved fruit and flower pendants; the space between the mantel-shelf and the picture-frame is filled with rococo scroll-work. The hall fireplace has a carved wood surround of the late 18th century with neo-classical garlands and wreaths. The stairs have open strings, scrolled step spandrels, turned balusters and a moulded handrail ending at the foot in a fist-shaped scroll with foliate enrichment.

Adjacent to the house on the E. is a stable range of one storey with lofts, with brick walls and tiled roofs; it dates probably from the first half of the 18th century. The W. front is approximately symmetrical and of nine bays, the middle bay wider than the others, set slightly forward and pedimented; at the centre is a round-headed doorway with an ashlar surround; the pediment has an oval window. The openings of the lateral bays are square-headed, with gauged brick heads with keystones. A central clock-turret is of the late 19th century.

The garden has a high brick wall on which is scratched the date 1762. A cast lead water-tank is perhaps of late 17th or early 18th-century date.'

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213215 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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