Listed Building record MDO9112 - Winterborne Zelston House, Winterborne Zelston

A two-storey house with cellars and attics. The front, main part of the house is of 19th-century date and there is an 18th-century range to the rear. The building has walls of brick with ashlar dressings and a tile and slate roof. The front has cast-iron balconies and trellis work.

SY 89859777. Winterborne Zelston House of two-storeys with cellars and attics, has brick walls with ashlar dressings. The main south range, or the early 19th century, masks an L-shaped north range dating from the 18th century. The 19th century south front is symmetrical with a central doorway. <2>

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 89869780) Zelstone House (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 315 (Monograph). SDO136.

'(3) WINTERBORNE ZELSTON HOUSE (89859777), 100 yds. N. of (1), is of two storeys with cellars and attics and has brick walls with ashlar dressings, and tiled and slated roofs. The main S. range, of the early 19th century, masks an L-shaped N. range that dates from the 18th century. The 19th-century S. front is symmetrical and of five bays, with a central doorway in a recess with four stone pilasters with moulded capitals; above is a recessed balcony with slender cast-iron trellis-work railings; the windows of the lateral bays of the S. front are sashed. The 18th-century N. elevation has cast-iron casement windows with segmental brick heads.’

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 455814 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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