Listed Building record MDO9154 - The Yews, Charminster

Detached house. Later C18, with a mid C19 extension to east. Brick walls, in Flemish bond with vitrified headers, rendered plat band and dentil brick cornice. Clay tile roofs with stone gable copings and level kneelers.

The Yews (SY 68109276), a later 18th century brick-walled building with a 19th century extension to the east. The central doorway has an open porch with freestanding Roman Doric columns. <2>

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

(SY 68109276) The Yews (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 1, 71 (Monograph). SDO146.

‘The following monuments are of the second half of the 18th and first half of the 19th century.
(19) The Yews (68109276), 200 yds. N.E. of the church, has walls of brick in Flemish bond with blue headers. It is of the later 18th century with a 19th-century extension to the E. The symmetrical three-bay S. front has a rendered plat-band at first-floor level and a brick dentil eaves cornice; the central doorway has an open porch of wood with free-standing Roman Doric columns supporting a flat hood with triglyphs in the frieze; the sashed windows have flat gauged brick heads.’

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453498 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Feb 20 2023 3:08PM