Listed Building record MDO6145 - Henbury House, Sturminster Marshall

Two storey with basement and attics. The house has brick walls with rusticated stone quoins, and is roofed in tile and slate. Original U-shaped plan of the first quarter of the eighteenth century, with later eighteenth century alteratioins, possibly of c1770, a date that appears on a bell at the front entrance. The record for this monument has been enhanced with support from Wessex Water.

SY 957982. Henbury House of two storeys with basement and attics has brick walls with rusticated stone quoins and dates from the second quarter of the 18th century although much enlarged and altered. The original plan was U-shaped with the main front to the north and two wings extending to the south. Alterations were made in the later 18th century, perhaps circa 1770, a date that appears on a bell at the front entrance. <1>

Henbury House and Henbury Hall. <3>

(SY95689823). Henbury Hall (name confirmed), remains as described above. It is at present being renovated. See ground photograph. <4>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 287 (Monograph). SDO149.

'(7) HENBURY HOUSE (597982), of two storeys with basement and attics (plate 152), has brick walls with rusticated stone quoins and roofs covered with tiles and stone slates. It is of the second quarter of the 18th century but has been much enlarged and altered; the original polan was U-shaped with the main fromt to the N. and two wings extending to the S. Alterations were made in the later part of the 18th century, perhaps c. 1770, a date that appears on a bell at the front entrance.

The N. front is in three bays, the centre breaking forward slightly under a pediment. The entrance has a late 18th century Doric porch reached by a curved flight of steps and above it, on the first floor, is a semicircular window with a moulded architrave; the other windows are plain with guaged brick heads and double-hung sashes. To the S. are two wings with hipped roofs and the space between them has been filled in, partly by an addition to take a staircase and partly by a later verandah. In each wing the principal floor has a window of three lights, the centre one being segmental-headed and rising into a recessed tympanum under a semicircular arch (c. 1770). The interior has been drastically altered but on the E. side of the house is a room with original panelling and fireplace surround and an original staircase with close string and turned balusters; some of the other rooms retain original fireplaces.

Stables, E. of the house, are of brick in header bond with tiled roofs and are of c. 1780. The building is L-shaped in plan with the main front to the N. in which the central doorway has a round-headed fanlight and is flanked by round-headed windows and at each end a projection with a round-headed window in a shallow recess under a half-hipped roof.'

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1970 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 95709823) Henbury House (NAT)

<3> Newman, J, and Pevsner, N, 1972, The Buildings of England: Dorset, 406 (Monograph). SWX1290.

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 19-DEC-80 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Historic England, Historic England Archive, BF110241 (Index). SDO14738.

Henbury House, Sturminster Marshall

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 457204 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Sep 20 2023 11:04AM